Virat Kohli Should Take Care Of His Mental Health More: Dinesh Lad

Dinesh Lad, coach of Rohit Sharma, has stated that Virat Kohli is in a very bad mental state and that his going without a century in any format of cricket is very bad. This comes while Kohli has been rested from the upcoming India-South Africa T20I series after a hectic IPL 2022 for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).

Kohli last made a century in international cricket in November 2019 in a Test against Bangladesh and in ODIs against West Indies earlier that year. Since then, he has struggled to score big numbers in all forms of cricket including the Indian Premier League.

For example, his form only took a further hit in the 2022 Indian Premier League, in which he scored just 341 runs in 16 innings at an average of 22.73 and strike rate of 115.98. He made two fifties and was out for golden duck three times.

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I Think He Should Take Care Of His Mental Health More: Dinesh Lad

Legendary coach Dinesh Lad, who coached current India captain Rohit Sharma in his formative years, said that he is confident of Kohli making a comeback and a bad patch is something that every great player has gone through and bounced back from in the past.

“Virat will make a comeback. Bad patches happen to everyone, some of the greatest cricketers have gone through it. Whether it be Viv Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, they all went through bad patches. But then they came back from it. I am sure that Virat will make a great comeback,” said Lad on India TV.

Lad further said that Kohli should take more time off to take care of his mental health as his drought of runs is very bad and must have affected him in a worse way.

“I think he should take care of his mental health more, that may have been affected by his form. He will always bat well, I have nothing to say about his batting. He doesn’t look mentally strong which may be the reason why his performances have gone down. Not scoring a century for three years is very bad.

“Especially for a player like Virat. Sachin had said that his record can be broken by only two batters and they are Virat and Rohit. Virat had come close and I would like him to be breaking those records over the next few years,” he said.

Kohli will now be seen on the tour of England where he will play in the postponed fifth Test in July and then in six limited-overs matches.

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