Virat Kohli Big Decision: Sanjay Bangar has seen Virat Kohli as an international cricketer from 2014 to 2019 and so when this star batsman called India’s former batting coach for help before making a comeback in the Ranji Trophy after 12 years. Not surprised. Kohli, who has been struggling to score runs for some time after the instructions of all central contracted cricketers of the Cricket Board of India (BCCI) to be available for domestic cricket, will play in Delhi’s last league match against the railway here from January 30. Captains Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja participated in the last round of Ranji Trophy and followed these instructions. Of these star players, only Jadeja (12 wickets, 38 runs) and Gill (second innings 102) performed well.
Kohli’s performance in the Border Gavaskar Trophy against Australia was not good and he was able to score 190 runs in nine innings, which raised questions about his future in Test cricket. Kohli lost his wicket on the balls going out of the off stump. To work on these technical aspects, Kohli took the help of Bangar, who was the batting coach of the Indian team during the five important years of this star cricketer. Bangar has a good understanding of Kohli’s game.
Kohli scored most of his 80 international centuries between 2014 and 2019 when Bangar was part of the national team. After the end of Bangar’s term, Kohli has scored only two centuries in Test cricket in the last five years. Bangar’s term ended after the ODI World Cup 2019 and Vikram Rathore was replaced as a batting coach.
A senior BCCI official told PTI, ‘After the ODI World Cup 2019, when Kohli’s response was sought for the assistant staff, he praised Bangar a lot. He had said that his technical advice benefited him in these years.
After the end of his term in the Bangar national team, the Royal Challengers joined the Bangalore team in the IPL where Kohli’s talk gets a lot of attention. This makes it clear how much Kohli trusts Bangar. Kohli could not play in the last round of the Ranji Trophy due to the neck muscles stretch. Meanwhile, he participated in a special practice session with Bangar.
In this exercise session, Bangar was shown throwing down from a distance of 16 yards to Kohli. He made Kohli practice on a continuous ball. Kohli wanted to improve his game on the backfoot and hence he enlisted the help of Sanjay Bangar. Meanwhile, Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) hopes that at least 10,000 spectators can reach this match due to Kohli’s playing. No entry fee will be charged from the audience.
A senior DDCA official said, ‘No entry fee has ever been charged to watch Ranji matches and this tradition will continue. The only thing is that two stands will be opened for fans because we know that cricket lovers are very excited by Virat’s playing in this match.
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