India vs England 3rd Test match- Virat Kohli's batting Woes continues. Sunil Gavaskar has his say on "What Virat needs to do next?"

 

    Over and over again Virat Kohli nicks the ball that bowled outside off stump. The entire cricket fraternity is so disappointed on the way Virat Kohli gives his wicket, everyone is on top of his head like "Where is the old Virat?" "Bring back the 2018 show".

    Whatsoever, we all know he is a champion player and one day very very soon he is going to break all these talks with his bat as he always does. Not to forget the legend's 2014 red ball stats(India tour of England) where he scored only 134 runs in 10 innings with the highest score of 39 which is still now considered as his very bad overseas outings than the any other. And followed by India tour of England 2018 where the Veteran batsman scored 593 runs in 10 innings with the highest score of 149 . However, India lost the series by 4-1 margin to England but no one can ever say a word on Virat's best comeback performance especially at the English soil after the 2014 nightmare.

    As usual, the experts have lots of different point of views on Virat Kohli's current form. However, Sunil Gavaskar's words stands top of all as he said Virat to call up Sachin Tendulkar to ask "What I need to do next". Uff, I got a goosebumps after analyzing "Why he said like that?". Before going in depth into it let me put up the Gavaskar's statement:

    "VIRAT KOHLI SHOULD GIVE A QUICK CALL TO SACHIN TENDULKAR AND ASK 'WHAT SHOULD I DO?'. HE SHOULD DO WHAT TENDULKAR DID AT SYDNEY. SAY TO HIMSELF THAT I AM NOT GOING TO PLAY THE COVER DRIVE ".

    Back in 2004, our own God of Cricket "Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar" also had the same woes as the current Indian captain going through. The legend was also nicking the ball bowled outside off stump and throwing his wicket again and again in the same fashion back on "India tour of Australia 2004".

All this was until fourth test at Sydney of the same tour where the God went on to score a double century 241(436b) followed by an unbeaten 60(89b). As mentioned by Gavaskar, Sachin decided not to play the cover drive which actually gave him the thriving result. In fact, Sachin himself said in the post match presentation  "I had got out a couple of times to balls bowled outside the off stump. So, I decided not to play the cover drive. They were bowling consistently outside the off stump and I decided to leave all those balls".

Here is the Video of the tour,

@imVkohli today I watched this https://t.co/Y0Cr13oLww video we love yours cover drive but this time we don't need cover drive we need our 2016 @imVkohli please comeback soon with strongly#INDvsEND #beast #Master #WTC23

— Short Life (@masterlife225) August 26, 2021

    And yes, that's what Virat Kohli has to follow to get out of this bad form. Of course, he is without a century for the past 50 innings, his last century was on 2019 and not to forget the fact that he has good double digit scores across the format even in his so called "Bad phase" that's the standard he sets for himself. Remember, MSD( Predecessor of Kohli) used to say "Form is a state of mind". Just a change in mindset could bring the most awaited 71st Century for the Indian Captain. We can say the whole cricket fraternity is waiting to see Virat Kohli's celebration after the Century. Likewise Sachin, even Dhoni had his bad phase particularly with captaincy in which he was known for his best. Back in 2016, where the legend had a very bad IPL season ever with Rising Pune Supergiants(RPS) finish the tournament at the bottom of the table followed by 2017 where the legend got sacked from captaincy by RPS management. But can you put an end card to Captain Dhoni like that. Of course, the answer is NO as he joined back CSK at 2018 and won the trophy like a Boss.

    "Once a champion, Always a champion". With all the things said, it's time for the legend to give a comeback and 👇