The former Indian skipper Virat Kohli has earned the reputation of being the greatest of all times due to his cricketing skills and insatiable hunger to score runs because of which he has broken many records. He is also a fitness freak who has inspired many youngsters along with his fellow cricketers and as a result, the present day cricketers are very fit in comparison to the cricketers of yesteryears.
However, Kohli’s aggression on the field has sometimes attracted criticism from the former players but still nobody can deny the fact that he is the most successful test skipper of India who has left behind the greats like Sourav Ganguly and MS Dhoni. King Kohli, as his fans call him, was the force behind creating a formidable unit which remained number one in the ICC test rankings for straight five years, something which is definitely very difficult to achieve.
Recently Pradeep Sangwan and Tanmay Srivastava, the two teammates of Virat Kohli from the Under-19 team, narrated their experience of playing with Virat and stated that his never-ending passion for cricket has made him stand apart from all others.
Pradeep Sangwan wrote in a column for a leading daily that they were sure Virat Kohli would one day play for the country because he used to score a lot of runs especially against the good teams because his thinking was that if he scored runs against good teams, people would notice him, talk about him and his chances of getting picked for the national team would increase further. Sangwan further adds that Kohli never gives up when he is on the field, in fact he feels that it’s just he who has to do the job for making his team win and when he is in the dressing room, he crack jokes and passes comments in order to keep the environment of the dressing room light and cordial.
Talking about Virat Kohli’s aggression, Tanmay Srivastava said that Kohli was different from the very beginning and he was always ready to take on anyone on the field. Srivastava said that Kohli was aggressive but people used to think that he had attitude issues; however when he began performing at the international level, his attitude turned into aggression for the same people and whenever he was not able to perform, they started raising fingers at him.
There is no doubt that Virat Kohli is different from others and he may not have won ICC trophies during his tenure of captaincy but that doesn’t make his achievements any less.