Virat Kohli is the most successful Test captain in the long history of Indian cricket. He has had a winning percentage of over 40 in 68 matches by now. Kohli has achieved a lot, but opportunities to bask in success were few. India lost the hard-fought series of 1:4 during an away tour of England, which would be counted as the toughest period in Indian cricket history for Kohli. Now, actor Varun Dhawan has given a peek into Kohli’s mindset and how he would deal with such bitter defeats, as narrated to him by Kohli’s wife Anushka Sharma.
Despite India being comprehensively beaten, Kohli somehow managed to finish as the top run-scorer in the series. The former was at his absolute peak in 2018 and ended the five-match series with an impressive 593 runs, courtesy of two centuries and three fifties.
But Dhawan reveals that Kohli beats himself up and takes the loss of the team on himself and, on occasions, only for this cause deficit to meet their team standard. “There are times when he’s not been in good form, insights that Anushka shared with me about his mindset. He lost a test. She said she didn’t attend the game that day. She came back and she didn’t know where Virat was. She came to the room and she saw him really down, literally crying. He took the whole thing on himself, that ‘I failed’,” Dhawan revealed on, The Ranveer Show.
This series loss against England in 2018 was Kohli’s heaviest series loss as India’s Test captain, though it was one of the most excellent performances made by him with the bat.
Since 2018, the form with which Kohli used to thunder with his bat has severely waned and he has faced quite a disturbance recently. In 17 innings for India in Test cricket in 2024, Kohli has managed only a mere 376 runs with just one fifty and a solitary century, and an average that’s at a shockingly low 25.
Kohli can potentially redeem his year in Test cricket yet again, this time against Australia at the Boxing Day Test on December 26, to be hosted by Melbourne. The Test becomes critical in determining the fate of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 final, considering that the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is already tied at 1-1.
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