I don’t think there is anything called form: Virat Kohli
Sep 29, 2016 at 5:54 PM
Captain Virat Kohli has been going through a rare lean patch in his career, the Indian Test captain said on Thursday.
Indian Test captain Virat Kohli has been going through a bad patch in his career.
“I don’t think about these things. Cricket is a game where you can only prepare well. Results cannot be in your hand all the time. You get caught to a no-ball and different things can happen which are out of your control,” Kohli said at a media briefing ahead of India’s second Test against New Zealand starting at the Eden Gardens on Friday.
“Preparation is something that is in my hand and I look to do that every time I walk in to practice,” said Kohli, who has averaged 26 in the last three essays after his double century in the first Test in the West Indies.
The 27 year batsman said that he never believes in form.
“I don’t think there is anything called ‘form’. It is how you are feeling on a certain day. It always doesn’t mean you are out of form. It’s just about how you are feeling mentally on a given day. We want to understand what we want to achieve and be stable in our head. I am looking to work hard,” Kohli said.
Meanwhile, a journalist asked him about his decision on whether BCCI should implement the DRS system following the New Zealand captain Kane Williamson nudged a caught behind in the first innings of the first match at Kanpur.
“Those are the things I can’t say yes or no sitting here. These are things we had discussed and had a meeting.”
“Some things can be debated like ball tracking and hawk eye. I personally feel these are things that can be debated on. We don’t have DRS, so we cannot blame umpires. Once DRS is in place, then we can think about it.”
In the first match of the series India defeated New Zealand by 197 runs.
Ravindra Jadeja was announced man of the match. Virat in the first matche scored 9 and 18 in two consecutive innings.
The 250th Test at Eden Gardens is a historic moment for India, so if India win the Test it will help India to win the series with the final Test in Indore to spare.
Virat in West Indies scored a double hundred in the first Test, but in the last three innings he could not even scored a half century.