India's head coach Rahul Dravid divulged how he helped the talismanic Indian batter Virat Kohli click with the bat. Dravid who took over as India head coach in 2021 saw Kohli's struggles with the bat across all three formats. Dravid has now revealed the process behind Kohli's return to form.
Dravid said that as a coach it was not easy to watch a player of Kohli's stature struggle for form.
"It was not easy for him since the standards that he has set for himself," Dravid told official broadcaster SonyLiv during the ongoing Chattogram Test.
However, the former Indian batter added that it has been fantastic to watch Kohli train and prepare for his game.
"It has been fantastic to watch Virat Kohli train and prepare over the last one and a half years," Dravid further added.
When asked about how he dealt with Kohli's rough patch as a coach, Dravid said that it was imperative to look beyond it and make sure he had not batted badly at a time when half-centuries and centuries became scarce.
"As coaches it is our job to look beyond those numbers and see that he had batted really well in that period of time," the India head coach concluded.
Kohli underwent a torrid period with the bat for nearly three years where runs did not not flow like before and he cascaded from the ranking ladder too. It is only recently that Kohli has started to come good with the bat, the herald of a return to form was first shown against Afghanistan at the Asia Cup 2022 when Kohli hit a century after nearly three years.
To prove it was not just a one-off knock, he played brilliant knocks against Australia in the home T20I series and then clocked up nearly 300 runs in the six games he featured at the T20 World Cup 2022. And he has not stopped there as he brought up a hundred against Bangladesh in the third ODI of three-ODI series and will look to emulate the good form in the Test circuit too after a single-digit score in the first innings.
