Gautam Gambhir and his teammates are not worthy of talking to Virat Kohli? Big statement by former bowling coach
Big personalities from around the world have said many things about Virat Kohli's continuous bad form. Now two former Indian cricketers Bharat Arun and S Badrinath have discussed Virat Kohli's form. During this, Badrinath asked Bharat Arun how the coach of the Indian team talks to Virat Kohli. Does he take any kind of input from him? During this, Bharat Arun remembered Ravi Shastri who used to help Virat Kohli a lot while being the head coach of Team India. According to Bharat Arun, there is no one in the current coaching staff who can talk to Kohli about his batting flaws. In this way, Bharat has targeted Gautam Gambhir on the pretext of Shastri.
It is worth noting that when Ravi Shastri was the head coach of Team India, Bharat Arun was the bowling coach of the Indian team. He has seen Ravi Shastri and Virat Kohli together closely. In response to Badrinath's question, Bharat said, 'When you say that he is the number 1 batsman in the world, then obviously Virat will ask questions, he will ask how are you saying this, what mistake did I make, I scored runs, why did you not tell me at that time'.
Bharat clearly said that the coach should always be ready to give advice to Virat Kohli about batting. He recalled the 2014 England tour. He told that Shastri told him, 'You stand on the leg stump, it swings in England, you cannot stand here, stand on the middle stump, come out of the crease, you are the owner of the crease. Kohli followed this in Australia and scored four centuries'.
Even the greatest batsmen had weaknesses
Bharat further said, if you want to point out weaknesses then it will be there in even the greatest batsmen, it is about how they deal with it and Kohli has made it by doing that. It is all about mentality, cricket is almost 90% mental game, all special players will have a personal coach whom they really trust Kohli also has it.
Kohli-Shastri complement each other
Bharat further described Kohli and Shastri as complementary to each other. He said, 'Shastri is one of them, they really complement each other, when Shastri said that this crease is yours, you own it, he would stand with Kohli in the nets and do the throwdown from the front and ask him to stand outside the crease and face it. Kohli took it with confidence and he followed it in Australia.
You need that stature to talk to Kohli.
The former coach further said, 'It is important to keep the coach separate, this gave confidence. However, to say this to Kohli, one needs to have the kind of stature and confidence that Ravi Shastri had, which I think the current coaching staff does not have.