Virat Kohli's power game is coming back at right time: Sanjay Manjrekar

Virat Kohli has got back his power game and things have started falling in place for him ahead of the T20 World Cup feels former India Test cricketer Sanjay ManjrekarKohli had endured a lean patch for nearly three years before he decided to take a monthlong mental health break while reinventing himself during last months Asia CupHe finished as Indias highest rungetter and since then continued his good form in the justconcluded T20s against Australia where his halfcentury in the series decider gave glimpses of vintage Kohli that the fans have been yearning to seeright from the Asia Cup every match that he Kohli got runs not just the runs there was some improvement coming I think the power game is back He is trusting his power game Manjrekar told in Sports 18s Sports Over The Top showThere was a time when he was getting runs but his power game was not coming at his beck and call That is starting to happen Manjrekar saidThe fact that he is being able to hit good balls for boundaries is a welcome sign said ManjrekarHe is dispatching good balls for big boundaries and sixes Its all about confidence This is a guy whos damn selfconfident and drives himself to excellence but for longtime runs werent coming and his confidence was tenderAlso Read T20I Rankings Team India go seven points clear of England at topKohli was the second highest overall run getter in the Asia Cup scoring 276 in five innings at an average of 9200 a strike rate of 14759 with two halfcenturies and a tonDuring the Asia Cup slowly and steadily certain things start to happen the pull shots came in and the sixes started going more into the stands than just going over the rope as it was going in the IPL So the pieces falling back to frame the perfect picture Now its all about putting all these kinds of performances in the main event he addedIn the following threematch T20 series against Australia at home which India won 21 Kohli totalled 76 runs from three innings at an average of 2533 with 63 being his highest individual scoreSeamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel who made a comeback from injury leaked runs in the series against Australia ending with an economy rate of 12 plusAnd Manjrekar pointed out the reasons behind the duos lacklustre performancesBhuvneshwar is overworkedThe cricketerturnedcommentator feels Bhuvneshwar is overworked With Bhuvneshwar Kumar its never a very simple answer but youve got to give one of the simple answers and one of the main reasons why Bhuvi seems to be off the boil is playing too much cricket In the sense that hes played all the matches coming into this series as well he saidThe Bhuvneshwar Kumar I have seen over the years hes not one of the strongest guys going around hes not somebody who takes a lot of workload he plays one format and hardly any otherHes somebody if you notice barring injury if he comes later a break to play in any tournament he is at his best in the first few games So I am going to put down Bhuvneshwar Kumars current performance to just match fatigueManjrekar said Harshal has limitations as a pacerHarshal Patel has limitations as a seam bowler but India must look as one of the third seaming options and must look at a couple of others as options and I keep stressing on Mohammed Shami as the other optionThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever