'Virat will need to come back to his basics': Kohli's childhood coach wants him to come back to academy

Virat Kohli’s form in recent times has not been pretty convincing as his wait for an international century has got bigger. Kohli scored his last international century in the pink-ball Test match against Bangladesh, played in Kolkata, back in 2019 and now Kohli’s former coach Rajkumar Sharma has opened up on the former Indian skipper's current form. According to Sharma, the Delhi-born batsman will need to “come back to his basics.”

Rajkumar urges

"Virat will need to come back to his basics. I would definitely want him to come back to the academy. I was thinking about this from yesterday and I am going to talk to him. The kind of confidence that he gets batting in the academy, he needs it," Rajumkar Sharma was quoted while talking to the Khelneeti podcast.

Sharma also feels that Kohli is “batting really well but unfortunately, he is batting too cautiously.”

"He is batting really well but unfortunately, he is batting too cautiously. If starts to bat a bit more freely, like he has his entire career then soon he will be back to his best. On such wickets you need to take more chances like Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer did," concluded Rajkumar.

Kohli's form

In the recently concluded two-match Test series against Sri Lanka, former Indian skipper failed to do anything remarkable as he could not even score a fifty. In the first innings of the first Test match, the 33-year-old batsman scored 45 runs off 76 balls. In the first innings of the second Test match he managed to score just 23 runs and in the second innings he scored 13 runs. Overall, he managed to score 81 runs in three innings at an average of 27.

Previously, Kohli had his worst ODI series of his career in almost a decade as he managed to score only 26 runs in the recently concluded three-match ODI series against West Indies. Kohli did score a half-century against the Kieron Pollard-led West Indies team in the second T20I match. In the first match of the T20I series against West Indies, Kohli scored 17 runs and in the first match of the series he scored 52 runs off 41 balls.