The sight of Virat Kohli coming back into India’s T20 team in the IND vs AFG T20I series must have made millions of Indian cricket fans happy. Virat marked his comeback with a brisk 29 off 16 balls in the IND vs AFG 2nd T20I. However, former India cricketer and ex chief selector Kris Srikkanth has urged Kohli to stick to his natural game rather than trying to accelerate from the first ball.
Kohli made a comeback to international T20 cricket after a 14-month hiatus. After missing the first game due to personal reasons, he was named in the team in the 2nd T20I. Kohli was fluent in his batting, tearing apart the Afghan bowling line up with his trademark shots. However, Kohli scored a Golden Duck in the IND vs AFG 3rd T20I. He looked to score runs from the very first ball, and that has prompted Srikkanth to say he would want Virat Kohli to bat in his own style, rather than looking to be aggressive from the word go.
“Each player has his own game. Everybody should first follow their game. If you tell Yashasvi Jaiswal to take his time and play, it’s not right. Players like him and ‘Cheeka’, you can’t tell them to take their time,” Srikkanth said in his YouTube show.
“Rohit Sharma is capable of doing it. Virat Kohli should play his natural game. He likes taking his time. Kohli is not worried about hitting sixes. He is capable of accelerating in the end, hit sixes in the end. We saw the Pakistan game in Melbourne, the way he built it up and won it for us.
“So, like you said, the strike rate and all that should be on the back of the mind. If you run after it desperately, it won’t work. If you started swinging from the word go… this is international cricket, you will be lucky to connect once or twice, not always,” Srikkanth concluded.
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