If I had about 20 minutes with Virat Kohli, it might help: Sunil Gavaskar

Virat Kohli regain touch by sorting his batting woes, especially his weakness outside off stump. Kohli is enduring a wretched run with the bat and has failed to score a century since November 2019. He could manage just 76 runs from six innings across formats on the England soil, which included the rescheduled fifth Test, two ODIs and as many T20s.

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Rohit Sharma once again jumped to Virat Kohli's defence after the former skipper was out cheaply in the second ODI at Lord's. Kohli had started off in good nick, stroking three crisp fours before nibbling at a David Willey delivery outside the off-stump and getting out caught behind.

"If I had about 20 minutes with him, I would be able to tell him the things he might have to do. It might help him, I am not saying it will help him but it could, particularly with regards to that off-stump line," Gavaskar told 'India Today'. "Having been an opening batter, having been troubled by that line, there are certain things that you try and do." Kohli's lean patch has led to calls for his ouster from the T20 World Cup team, with even the legendary Kapil Dev voicing support for his exclusion. However, many former and current cricketers, including Babar Azam, Kevin Pietersen and Shoaib Akhtar have backed him to come good in the upcoming games.

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Pakistan's fast-bowling great Shoaib Akhtar has hit out at Virat Kohli's critics and reminded them that the former India captain's 70 international hundreds weren't scored in "aunt's backyard" or while playing "candy crush video game".

"It goes back to the fact that his