Virat Kohli reached triple digit score in Tests by scoring 186 runs for India in the first innings of Ahmedabad Test against Australia. However, when involved in a conversation with India head coach Rahul Dravid after the end of the Ahmedabad Test, asked Kohli whether the drought of centuries in Tests was ‘difficult’ for him. The batsman gave a ‘brutally honest’ response.
In a video shared by BCCI.TV, Dravid asked Kohli if it was ‘hard’ for him to have not scored a Test century for such a long period –
In response, Kohli said – “To be honest, I’ve led the complications to grow on me a little bit because of my own shortcomings. I think the desperation to get the 3-figure mark is something that can grow on you as a batsman. We’ve all experienced that at some stage or the other. I think I led that happen to me to a certain extent.”
He added – “But also the flip side to it is that I am not a guy who is happy with 40 or 45 runs. I am someone who always takes pride in performing for the team. It’s not like Virat Kohli should stand out. When I am batting on 40, I know I can get a 150 here and that will help my team. That was eating me up a lot.”
He further added – “Why am I not able to get that big score for the team because I always took the pride in performing for the team when it needed me, in difficult conditions and difficult situations,” he added.
Kohli then gave a ‘Brutally Honest’ explanation and said that it was not the fact that he was not able to score a century, but the matter where he could not help the team with the bat as much as he was doing.
Virat Kohli asserted –
“The fact that I wasn’t able to do that was bother me. Not so much the milestone as such as I don’t play for it. A lot of people ask me this question, ‘how do you keep scoring a hundred?’. I always told them, a hundred is something that happens along the way within my goal which is to bat as long as possible for the team and get as many runs as possible.”
Kohli added – “So, the milestone is never my focus. But yes, I have to be brutally honest, i does become a little complicated because the moment you step out of the hotel room, right from the guy outside the room to the guy in the lift to the bus driver, everyone is saying we want a hundred. So, it’s like, it does play on your mind.”
