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What's eating Virat Kohli

Gnske

Gnske

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Vanity, ego and a failure to turn up when it truly counts and make it matter at all.
 
OverratedSanity

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Right now a lot of it is mental, these technical shortcomings were always there even when he was averaging 70+ in his peak years. He's bought into the idea that he's some defensive sheet anchor in all formats now which is more obvious to see in ODIs where he no longer displays the full range of his strokeplay for some reason, but also in tests. If he's nicking one to 2nd slip, fine he always did that and its why he'll never be great in swinging conditions. But his lack of positive strokeplay even at home is really striking. He gets out a lot just playing lame forward defensive prods to nothing balls. He spent years saying if you don't show intent as a batsman you're going to fail. He's literally become what he hates.

There are a few things that teams have done too, his lack of offside shots off the backfoot means his scoring areas are seriously limited these days because teams no longer feed his pull. Guys like KW and Root have a reliable backfootpunch to shortish balls outside off, Kohli with his shovelwhip technique just cant do it. All this being said, I'm reasonably confident he'll have another good run of form soon enough. He may not get back to 2015-18 levels but he'll be fine. He's still played some decent innings recently just failed to convert.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

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OverratedSanity said:
Guys like KW and Root have a reliable backfootpunch to shortish balls outside off, Kohli with his shovelwhip technique just cant do it.
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Its not like he does not have it either. He has just gone meme frontfoot thrust everyball since about 2018 for whatever reason and once that run of form deserted him, he is finding it harder and harder. I still think his best shot at finding some form back is a JAM ODI or T20I somewhere where he can just hit out and find some timing and confidence again. He had an innings like that against England in the T20I series here earlier this year but then the second wave break happened.
 
Gob

Gob

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OverratedSanity said:
Right now a lot of it is mental, these technical shortcomings were always there even when he was averaging 70+ in his peak years. He's bought into the idea that he's some defensive sheet anchor in all formats now which is more obvious to see in ODIs where he no longer displays the full range of his strokeplay for some reason, but also in tests. If he's nicking one to 2nd slip, fine he always did that and its why he'll never be great in swinging conditions. But his lack of positive strokeplay even at home is really striking. He gets out a lot just playing lame forward defensive prods to nothing balls. He spent years saying if you don't show intent as a batsman you're going to fail. He's literally become what he hates.

There are a few things that teams have done too, his lack of offside shots off the backfoot means his scoring areas are seriously limited these days because teams no longer feed his pull. Guys like KW and Root have a reliable backfootpunch to shortish balls outside off, Kohli with his shovelwhip technique just cant do it. All this being said, I'm reasonably confident he'll have another good run of form soon enough. He may not get back to 2015-18 levels but he'll be fine. He's still played some decent innings recently just failed to convert.
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He was motoring along towards a hundred in Adelaide before Ajinkay said 'call an ambulance but not for me'
 
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Pup Clarke

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The 'perfectionist' angle interpreted from HB is an interesting one. He definitely appears more robotic at the crease recently (indecisive footwork and going with hard hands) but I definitely predict that he'll rediscover form pretty quickly and have a big 2022.

He's too good and adaptable for this to be a permanent slump
 
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