Virat Kohli was seen praising MS Dhoni again, said- only Mahi spoke to me in bad times
New Delhi. Legendary batsman Virat Kohli said that Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the only person who spoke to him when he was going through a bad phase on the cricket field. Kohli regained his old touch last month by scoring three centuries in four ODIs. He had earlier ended a three-year drought of hundreds in international cricket by scoring a century in the Asia Cup T20 tournament in September 2022. There is a strong bond between Kohli and Dhoni.
These words of Kohli prove it.Kohli told ‘RCB Podcast’, “Anushka was my biggest strength at that time because she was living with me and she saw very closely how I felt … During this time my childhood coach and family Apart from this, MS Dhoni was the only person who contacted me. Kohli shared the dressing room with Dhoni for 11 years between 2008 and 2019. He described the charismatic cricketer from Ranchi as his ‘captain’ forever. Kohli said, “He contacted me himself because it is very difficult to contact Dhoni. If I call him on any given day, 99 per cent he doesn’t pick up because he is away from the phone.
“So it was good to be approached from their side and that too (done) twice. He explained to me, “When you are expected to be strong and you are seen as a strong person, people forget to ask how are you?” The words made a deep impression on me, because I have always been seen as a person who is very confident, very strong mentally, who can bear any situation and find a way out, as well as we Can show.
The veteran batsman said, “Sometimes, what you realize is that at some point in life as a human being, you need to take a few steps back and understand what your own well being is. When Kohli suddenly relinquished the Test captaincy after the tour of South Africa in January 2022, he had also said that only Dhoni had sent him the message.
