Virat Kohli form – Bhartiyanews24x7

Irfan Pathan on Saturday backed stalwarts Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to find form in the upcoming Champions Trophy, asking fans not to conflate their recent Test match struggles with their white-ball prospects. “They’ll start scoring runs in white-ball cricket; there’s no doubt about that. Test cricket is a different ball game altogether. Adjustments are needed, whether it’s Virat managing deliveries outside the off-stump or Rohit finding his rhythm. ODI is their favourite format, and they’ll bounce back strongly,” he said. Rohit and Virat haven’t had the best of times in red-ball cricket recently with India losing the Border Gavaskar Trophy to Australia for the first time in 10 years as both batters failed to spark into life. Having played only three Tests in the tour, Rohit averaged 6....

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Monday (January 20, 2025) refused to read much into Virat Kohli's prolonged lean run and hailed the batting maestro as the "greatest white-ball player" and "once-in-a-lifetime cricketer". Kohli struck a second innings century in the opening Perth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy but then managed only 85 runs in the next seven innings. With seniors such as Kohli and skipper Rohit Sharma failing to deliver, India lost the series Down Under 1-3. "Virat Kohli is a once-in-a-lifetime cricketer. To score 81 international centuries in a career is something unbelievable. For me, he's probably the greatest white-ball player the world has seen," Ganguly said during a Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB felicitation programme for the state's players. Reflecting...

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Irfan Pathan backs Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to find form in Champions Trophy: ‘ODI is their favourite format’

Ganguly hails Kohli as the ‘greatest white-ball player’