Virat Kohli's mantra: Few friends, less distraction
The newly-crowned supreme leader of Indian cricket is fiercely focused, not just on the field, but off it too.
"Luckily, I don't have too many people in my life that I am close to. I think that helps. If you have too many people and too many friends you speak to, you get distracted and your time management becomes impossible," Virat Kohli told ex-England captain Nasser Hussain in an interview to a British TV channel. Virat Kohli has finally opened up about the technical adjustments he made to his game following a poor tour of England in 2014, where he failed to get 50-plus scores in five Tests. Subsequently, Kohli's form saw a remarkable upswing, beginning with the four hundreds in four Tests on the tour of Australia at the end of 2014 and continuing till now.
Kohli feels he was under pressure and desperate to score runs in England, leading to errors in his batting technique. "I had put too much pressure on myself before going to England (2014) that I needed to score there. I don't know why subcontinent players are given different benchmarks that we have to perform in certain countries and if you don't do that, you are not considered a good player."I think it was more about me being desperate to do well in England and then when you don't do well, you start going down mentally," Kohli told former England captain Nasser Hussain in a TV interview.