“I was getting very cranky, very snappy in my space….Anushka, the close ones, it isn’t fair on the people that support you,” Kohli said while reliving his run drought.
Until December 2022, Virat Kohli hadn’t scored an ODI century for since March 2019. Now, in the space of a month, he has notched back to back hundreds in the year of the ODI World Cup. These, on the back of a T20 World Cup campaign as India’s highest run scorer and a T20I hundred in the 2022 Asia Cup to break his three year drought without a triple figure score.
Speaking to Suryakumar Yadav in a BCCI video after the first ODI against Sri Lanka in Guwahati on Tuesday, Kohli said, “Do saal mai aisa saal nahi shuru hua (Last two years didn’t start out this way for me). This was the first match of the year and I got a century so hopefully I can build on this because it’s a world cup year and there’s a big Test series coming up against Australia.”
He further added, “In any game, when you score runs you get the confidence. Today, I was just happy that I could bat through the innings almost. To get the 25-30 runs I felt with the dew coming in, they were important. I’m just happy, I’m playing well. For me, it is all about being excited to play. As long as I’m happy to play. I’m able to play like this. Sometimes your mind goes up and down when you’re playing so much but keeping that mental freshness is helping me.”
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Source: www.indianexpress.com
