From Ahmedabad to Antigua: U-19 World Cup profitable captain Virat Kohli holds session with 2022 batch
Virat Kohli is aware of precisely the way it feels to be on high of the world when you could have barely attained the age to have a driving license.
Virat Kohli additionally is aware of the way it feels when criticism flies thick and quick when one doesn’t carry out as per potential after a world trophy.
And nobody is aware of greater than Virat Kohli the way it feels to be a world beater at a stage the place it issues probably the most.
So it was not simply “good but a great morning” for the likes of Rajvardhan Hagargekars, Kaushal Tambes, Yash Dhulls linked on a zoom name from their respective lodge rooms in Antigua, they’d one in every of their position fashions ready to “congratulate them” and likewise communicate to them about what it means to play an U-19 World Cup ultimate.
WHAT. A. PERFORMANCE! 💪 👌
India U19 beat Australia U19 by 9⃣6⃣ runs & march into the #U19CWC 2022 Final. 👏 👏 #BoysInBlue #INDvAUS
This is India U19’s 4th successive & eighth total look within the U19 World Cup finals. 🔝
Scorecard ➡️ https://t.co/tpXk8p6Uw6 pic.twitter.com/tapbrYrIMg
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 2, 2022
India U-19 led by Yash Dhull will tackle England in what would be the fourth successive ultimate at this stage since 2016.
And Kohli is aware of a factor or two about profitable excessive stress ultimate on the junior stage when his workforce beat South Africa on a balmy night in Kuala Lumpur in 2008.
Fourteen summers have handed by and Kohli had change into captain and is now a former chief of the senior workforce with greater than 20k worldwide runs to his credit score.
Whether it was BCCI secretary Jay Shah or NCA chief VVS Laxman, whoever requested Kohli to spare a while for the ‘Baby Blues’ did a exceptional job as there could possibly be few who can inform what it takes to make the grade.
U-19 is only a first cease and even when they win, there are definitely no ensures that the life can be mattress of roses from right here on.
“It was really good to interact with you virat kohli bhaiyya. Learnt some important things about life and cricket from you which will help us in getting better in upcoming times,” wrote workforce’s premier pace-bowling all-rounder Rajvardhan Hangargekar on his instagram tales.
“Some valuable tips from the GOAT before the final,” wrote spinner Kaushal Tambe.
Their head coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar was additionally current listening intently to what one in every of world’s biggest batters needed to say.
One cam be relaxation assured it was extra in regards to the highway forward the place plenty of them will fall by the wayside, some will stay confined to home stage and solely a choose few with huge expertise and temperament will make the grade.
Kohli is aware of what are the perils of early stardom and the way one can get his toes again to the bottom. He has seen zenith and nadir and one can solely hope this dialogue will make these children extra rounded as sportsmen than they have been earlier than. PTI KHS KHS