Former England captain Michael Vaughan feels out-of-form India batter Virat Kohli should take "three months break" from cricket, and spend some time with his family. Kohli, who has not scored a century in nearly three years, managed scores of 11 and 20 in the recently-concluded fifth Test against England at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Highlighting Kohli's poor returns with the bat of late, Vaughan said that the 33-year-old batter needs a sabbatical from cricket, which will help him re-invent himself.
"I look at Virat in particular. I knew he had a little bit of a rest at the end of the IPL. But he just looks to me like he needs a sabbatical. He looks like he needs three months away from cricket. Go and sit on a beach. Go and do what you can with your family because a career of 20 years, which he probably will end up getting (runs) because he's such a good player. To have a three months break, is it going to affect him? No. Will it help him? Yes," Vaughan said during a chat with Cricbuzz.Vaughan hit out at the scheduling of the three-match India-England T20I series that got underway on Thursday, saying it's impossible for the players to play all three formats in a span of few days.
Seen as a build-up to the T20 World Cup later this year, the series gets underway barely two days after the Test match got over.
"I just look at the schedule for India and England. It's ridiculous. We'll see more and more of this over the next few years. It's just impossible that all-format players will be able to play all three formats.
"The management of all these teams are going to have to be very clever in terms of giving them a breather," Vaughan said.Kohli was not in the squad for the first T20I, which India won comfortably thanks to Hardik Pandya's all-round show.Highlighting Virat Kohli's poor returns with the bat of late, Michael Vaughan said that the 33-year-old batter needs a sabbatical from cricket, which will help him re-invent himself. Indian veteran batter Virat Kohli's ploy of trying to negate swing by meeting the ball early has backfired feels the legendary Sunil Gavaskar, whose advice in English conditions has always been about playing as late as possible.
Kohli, now just four months short of completing three years without an international ton, scored 11 and 20 in the recently concluded rescheduled Test against England, which India lost by seven wickets.
"The trick to play in England is to play as late as possible. Then you are allowing the ball to do its bit, and then you are playing the ball. From what I saw in the highlights, it seemed Kohli was looking to reach for the ball, trying to play it early," Gavaskar said
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Virat Kohli's batting woes: Sunil Gavaskar explains why icon is struggling to score big
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Virat Kohli, now just four months short of completing three years without an international ton, scored 11 and 20 in the recently concluded rescheduled Test against England.
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Indian veteran batter Virat Kohli's ploy of trying to negate swing by meeting the ball early has backfired feels the legendary Sunil Gavaskar, whose advice in English conditions has always been about playing as late as possible.
Kohli, now just four months short of completing three years without an international ton, scored 11 and 20 in the recently concluded rescheduled Test against England, which India lost by seven wickets.
"The trick to play in England is to play as late as possible. Then you are allowing the ball to do its bit, and then you are playing the ball. From what I saw in the highlights, it seemed Kohli was looking to reach for the ball, trying to play it early," Gavaskar said
He pointed out that Kohli had enjoyed success in England in 2018 as he looked to play the ball very late. "Therefore, he was not looking like he was in 2018 when he was looking to play it very late around the off-stump."
Gavaskar feels the reason behind Kohli's new approach could be the dip in form and paucity of runs in recent years. These are times when one tends to play every ball, and it often fraught with danger.
"This could possibly be his issue because he hasn't been among the runs. When you are not in form, you look to play almost every ball, hit each one of them, in a bid to score runs. Maybe that's something that can he look at," the former Indian batting legend said.
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