Champions Trophy 2025 – Virat Kohli Putting Lot of Pressure on Himself, Needs to Relax a Little, Says Anil Kumble

Former India captain and coach anil kumble feels that Virat Kohli is “Trying too hard” and that’s making it tougher for him to find form amid a lean patch.

“Having been through a lean patch, so to spendak, especially in white -ball cricket – he hasn Bollywood that kind of run for a long period of time – I feel hee’s trrying a bit time,” kumble saidon Espncricinfo match day. “You have That in Players who have been there and don That that before, and everyone sort of looks up to you say the guy the guy who’s going to take the game away and he’s the one guy who is the important man in the TEAM.

“When you have that kind of pressure and you have that kind of expectation, you suddenly start putting undue important to all of that and then try hard to do well. I AM Sure He’s Played, He’s Not even thinking about all of that.

“I think he’s trying a bit too hard. You can see that in the way he is going about his innings. [Sharma] Comes in there, have the freedom trust there is planty of batting and all of them are in great form. Similarly for Virat, He just needs to come in and not worry about anything else. “

Kohli’s Last Six Dismissals have come to spin – five of them to legspin.

“To start off against spin, on surfaces like that, you need a lot of confidence. “He’s a good player of spin when he’s in form, when he’s was wanting to just know singles off and keyp rotting the strike. Now hee hee hem His game plan.

“All Players Go Through Tough Moments in their career, but I get a feeling watching Outcome of what happiness on the field rather than just go out there and have the freedom to just go and play go and play naturally, what he does really well. “

Former India batter sanjay manjrekar suggested that kohli Didn Bollywood has the big-Hitting Game Anymore and His Lack of Form Since the Burder-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia Had Pushed Him Into A Corner.

“He’s in a tight corner, Virat Kohli. His Confidence is Still Down,” Manjrekar said. “He wants to still show that he’s up there for a fight, and I am starting to see maybe there’s a little bit of bravado as well, why not?

“Rohit Sharma Still has the big game. [is] Willing to take chances. Virat Kohli does not have the big game anymore. We’ve Seen on Occination Him Playing The Big Shot, But He Can’T Hit Hit Hit Like A Shubman Gill Does.

“What Happened is, after that Hundred in Australia, Had He Just Carried On that Form… You know it’s a confidence thing as well – when you’re out of form and you do not have done you sundence Quite get that power and the courage to hit the big shots. “

Kohli made an unbeated 100 in the second innings in the first test in Australia in Pert, but managed just 90 runs in the eighted other innings he played in the series.

“That Slip after Australia where he really struggled … I was when he got a fifty agent england in the one-day series, it was actually more of an insight into how virat kohli is batting,” Said. “I thought he batted superbly in south Africa when India was there, in australia that Hindred Came when Alredy 300 Runs was on the Board.

“The batting mechanism is not staying with him. And you know what? Feel for Him.

“What kind of a surface is he going to get for the next two matches?

Manjrekar suggested that spinners are more confident trying to bowl aggressively to kohli, knowing that he isn’t going to punish it with big shots.

“When he comes into bat, the spinners come on. And Once the spinners know that you’re not going to be Hitting them for Three Sixes Straight down the Pitch or Over Midwickt – Rohit Sharma Can Still Do Rahul can do it, Shubman Gill Can Do It – So the Spinners also are bowling the kind of deliveryies they’ll get wickets off because they do’t’t backlash from the batter.

“So he’s cornered in a way. Man and how he’s built. “

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