Virat Kohli has rediscovered his form and has already hit 3 fifties in IPL 2023 (Pic Credit: Sportzpics)
Virat Kohli revealed that he contemplated retirement from cricket amid his lean patches but has rediscovered his form since last year’s Asia Cup.
Virat Kohli has started the IPL 2023 season with a bang and has scored three half-centuries so far this term, while he could only manage two half-centuries in the entire IPL 2022 campaign. For the past few years, Kohli has struggled to even crack the three-figure mark, but ever since Virat scored his much-awaited century against India. Afghanistan In last year’s Asia Cup, he rediscovered his form and hit three hundreds in 2023 alone, taking his total to five since the Asia Cup.
In a recent interview, Kohli revealed that during his lean phase, there was a time when he felt it was the ‘last month’ of his playing career.
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“The most important factor in this whole transition period before the Asia Cup last year was that I was ready to give up everything. I was ready to accept that when I go back and play, it might be my last month of playing competitive cricket, and I was absolutely fine with that,” Kohli said in an interview with Robin Uthappa on GeoCinema. .
The 34-year-old has struggled to convert his starts into big scores and took a break from cricket after India’s tour of England last year. Kohli said that he was thinking of retiring from the game, but when he returns, runs will start flowing from his bat.
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“Everybody was like we look at it and this is the solution. I couldn’t figure out why this is what’s missing (points to head). When you don’t normally If you happen, you are spot on. There was no technical problem because I have done it for 15 years. It cannot happen that everything comes to a standstill and technical issues get fixed,” the former India captain said.
He added, “When I came back fresh and started hitting the ball again and people said ‘Oh, you’ve made some serious changes’, but I didn’t pick up a bat for six weeks.”
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The Delhi-born talismanic batsman found his form after the Asia Cup, finished as the leading run-scorer of the T20 World Cup 2022 and has been in a rich vein of form since then.
Virat Kohli is also leading the race for the IPL 2023 Orange Cap and is all set to help RCB win their maiden IPL title.
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