Matter of time before Virat Kohli gets back in form: Anjum Chopra

Virat Kohli is doing all he can to get back among runs and it is a matter of time before he is back to his best. "Virat Kohli himself knows what he needs. When you do not score as per your standards, you practice more.

I am sure that he is practicing, is doing, and will keep doing everything to get back in form. The way international cricket goes, practice is the only way out. A player can only try and make the effort.

And a player like him must be trying and trying to get out of the slump. But sometimes, things do not go your way. The kind of adulation and focus he has had on him over the years, this dip was bound to happen sometime," said Chopra in an exclusive interview with ANI.

"I have seen players scoring 30s and 40s and surviving in the Indian team for years. But from his bat, the 30s and 40s look less because of the standard he has set for himself. I am sure that it will be a matter of time that he will be back among runs for the Indian team," she added.

Virat Kohli's recent run of form has been a subject of concern and debate among cricketers and fans alike. Kohli could manage scores of only 11 and 20 in the fifth and final Test against Edgbaston and continued his bad performances in T20Is, where he could score only 12 runs in two innings. This was followed by 17 and 16 runs in the three-match ODI series against England.

Also, Kohli had a sub-par IPL 2022, in which he could score only 341 runs in 16 games at an average of 22.73 and a sub-par strike rate of 115.98. He could score only two half-centuries in the tournament. The start batter has not been at his best in the Blue jersey either, scoring 175 runs in eight innings at an average of 21.88 in ODIs and 81 runs in four innings at an average of 20.25.