"Does He Say The Same About Rohit Sharma?": Matthew Hayden On Ravi Shastri's Virat Kohli "Needs A Break" Comment

Virat Kohli recorded his third golden duck of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 season against SunRisers Hyderabad on Sunday and once again a debate has started on whether the batter should take a break to rejuvenate himself. The idea was first floated by former Team India head coach Ravi Shastri, who has followed Kohli from close quarters. Whether the former India skipper needs a break was even discussed on-air by Harsha Bhogle, Matthew Hayden and Sunil Gavaskar while they were doing commentary for the match between RCB and SRH.

During the second over of the match which was being bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harsha Bhogle raised Ravi Shastri's point, saying: "Ravi Shastri suggested that Virat Kohli needs a break."

To this, Matthew Hayden said does Shastri says the same about Rohit Sharma, who has also not been able to fire in the ongoing IPL edition.

"Does he say the same about Rohit Sharma? I mean these guys are playing cricket all the time, of course these tournaments, they come around so quickly, you get yourself into a mental space and Kohli has been brilliant at it for so many years, so animated, so passionate. To come off that though just for a moment and you are under pressure," said Hayden while on-air.

"It takes so much courage as well, no player ever believes that they can go to the selector and go, 'sorry, I need to be out' because you wanna play, you wanna be that person to take control of the innings. It is so frustrating when you are getting into a little rut, you cannot find ways out. Sometimes it can be an explosive cover drive, a great pull shot or in Virat Kohli's case, just a fantastic one or two with hard and positive body language like David Warner," he added.

"The only reason I brought