Virat Kohli, one of India’s greatest batsmen, will play again at the Asia Cup 2022, where the team faces Pakistan on August 28 to open play (Sunday). In addition to missing India’s last two tours to the West Indies and Zimbabwe, Kohli had been struggling with his batting during the previous few months.
“For the first time in 10 years, I didn’t touch my bat for a month. I came to realisation that I was trying to fake my intensity a bit recently. I was convincing myself that no, you had the intensity. But your body was telling you to stop. The mind was telling me to take a break and step back,” Kohli said in a video posted by Star Sports.
“I’m looked at as a guy who is mentally very strong and I am. But everyone has a limit and you need to recognize that limit, otherwise things can get unhealthy for you.
“This period taught me a lot of things that I wasn’t allowing to come to surface. When they eventually came up, I embraced it.”