He was at his imperious self at the nets on Monday.
Virat Kohli bristled towards the practice nets. He scanned the skies to feel the sun, ran his fingers through the trimmed grass, greeted the groundsmen, shook hands with the curator and eyed the net bowlers haggling to bowl first at him. The setting was familiar: Chinnaswamy Stadium is perhaps more home than a home away from home, his association with Royal Challengers Bangalore turning 18 next year.
The lack of hundreds would be tossing uneasily somewhere in the innards of his mind—the drought-ending hundred in Ahmedabad did not stir a hurricane but rather a breeze, a mean of 49 runs in 12 innings. He is riding a curious phase where he has not been as emphatic as he had been in his 2014-2019 pomp, a four-year span wherein he was the emperor of all he surveyed, but has not been as miserable as he had been from mid-2019 to early 2023 slump. He has been hitting the in-between frequency. Some of his contemporaries have been catching a second-wind in their careers, Joe Root for one. Australia have announced that Steve Smith experiment to open won’t be attempted against India, and he too would be inching to regain form.
After get-the-eye-in defensive blocks in the nets, he swapped his violin for a bass guitar. He drilled Akash Deep down the ground so powerful that it broke the flaky leg of a plastic chair. The remaining pack were hurriedly dragged away.Read More:
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