Not Bothered By Anything At All, Says Virat Kohli On MS Dhoni's Current Form

India skipper Virat Kohli has leapt to the defence of his predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni who is facing widespread criticism for his current form. After getting just a couple of chances in the Champions Trophy, where he scored a fifty in one of them, Dhoni made his mark in the third of the recently-concluded five-match series against West Indies. He played a winning knock of 78 runs off 79 balls, drawing praises like he’s like old wine, which only gets better with time.

Not Bothered By Anything At All, Says Virat Kohli On MS Dhoni's Current Form

However, in the very next game, India’s most-decorated skipper faced the brunt of many when India lost by 11 runs while chasing a modest 190. The wicketkeeper-batsman, who came rather early on the crease, though scored 54 runs but took 114 balls to do that, scoring the slowest ODI fifty by an Indian in the last 16 years. And although, he was at the crease till the penultimate over, he could not take India over the line. But Kohli leapt to the defence of his teammate and was quick to remind the former skipper’s match-winning knock in the third ODI and the half-century against Sri Lanka in the Champions Trophy.

“You have to figure out what kind of wickets you are batting on. I was trying to hit the spinners a couple of days in practice but couldn’t because the wickets weren’t great to play your strokes,” Kohli said after winning the series-clinching fifth ODI on Friday (July 6).

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Not Bothered By Anything At All, Says Virat Kohli On MS Dhoni's Current Form

“It was only in the last game where he couldn’t rotate the strike, before that he got a brilliant 70-80 odd not out. In the Champions Trophy against Sri Lanka, he played a brilliant knock. In the first game as well, he played a brilliant knock here when it wasn’t rained out and we won the game. You don’t have to tell him anything, he is striking the ball beautifully. I think we get too impatient with one game or one knock, that can happen to anyone. Any batsman can struggle, any batsman can get stuck in the crease, even if you are in top form. I don’t think there’s any issue, there have been good knocks around it and the strike-rate is close to 100, if not over 100. So not bothered by anything at all,” he added.

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