“Said It Would Be Difficult…”: Ex-Pakistan Star’s U-Turn On Virat Kohli’s Comeback | Cricket News

Regarded by many as the best batter of his era, Virat Kohli had a tough patch with the bat for almost all of 2022. The 34-year-old hadn’t scored a global century in practically three years. The former India captain additionally had low returns with the bat throughout final season’s Indian Premier League. Amid his struggles with the bat, former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif had steered that when Kohli loses his magic contact, it could be tough for him to regain his kind.

However, Kohli ended his century drought final season in the course of the Asia Cup, smashing 122 off 61 balls in opposition to Afghanistan. It was his 71st century in worldwide cricket, and his first within the shortest format of the sport.

Kohli carried his kind within the T20 World Cup, ending the event because the top-scorer.

Since then, Kohli has scored three extra tons – all coming in ODIs.

Asif, nonetheless, has now made a u-turn relating to his assertion on Kohli, insisting that he felt it could be “difficult” for the participant to return to kind, however “not impossible.”

“I said that it would be difficult, but not impossible. For a bottom-hand player, at the age of 31 or 32, it is difficult to make a strong comeback. Upper-hand players are a little more fluent, even if they have a bad patch, they can recover. Players like Sachin (Tendulkar), Babar (Azam) find it more easy to make a comeback due to this reason. Kohli is my favourite player and I really enjoy his batting,” Asif mentioned on Salman Butt’s YouTube channel.

Speaking of Asif, he was one in every of three gamers suspended for spot-fixing in 2011 together with then captain Butt and fellow pacer Mohammad Amir.

He was handed a seven-year ban in 2011 for his position within the spot-fixing scandal throughout Pakistan’s tour of England.

The 40-year-old was additionally sentenced to at least one yr in jail and served half of that sentence. In 2015, ICC relaxed its earlier suspension and allowed the three gamers to return to all types of the sport.

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