Former cricketer Mohammad Kaif is very happy that Virat Kohli has completely sealed the mouth of the critics. Kaif posted on social media and ridiculed Kohli’s critics without taking any name. He said that Kohli responded with the bat in such a way that everyone is now chanting his rosary. Critics also kept expecting him to save the team from disgrace. Kaif said that no matter how much cricket one plays, plays tournament after tournament, plays the whole year, one cannot become Virat Kohli. Mohammad Kaif said in his video, ‘Everyone is chanting the rosary of Virat Kohli. All his critics are chanting Virat Kohli-Virat Kohli. In the last match against the third class team of New Zealand, a prayer was made that Virat Kohli should play till the last. Make him win somehow, it would be a great insult. People came on this prayer, his critics. So Virat Kohli tried well, played till the last. Could not win the match. But all the people who were against him…it was a lost battle, it was a lost battle at that time, from that very moment when people spoke against Virat Kohli.
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Describing Kohli as a different kind of player, Kaif said, ‘You can play all year round, play Ranji, play Vijay Hazare, play Syed Mushtaq Ali, play IPL, play all year long but you will not be able to become Virat Kohli. To become Virat Kohli, one thing is most important and that is passion. When a person comes down to the ground after donning the Tricolour, he is not a player or a player. Not in any player.
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Kaif further said, ‘After playing that, the guy scored 100, packed his bag and went to London. Yes, when the match happens, the guy will come, train, hit 100 again, then London. Now he doesn’t play throughout the year, but to become like him, you won’t get the intensity I talked about, the passion I talked about, through practice. That experience, he has been playing for so many years, he has been playing for India since 2008 and the connection he has with India. That playing with the tricolor, that passion that I will stay till the last and go out victorious. No one will teach you that passion, you will not get such a lesson in any book or in any coaching. …Virat Kohli makes people sweat while sitting, he is such a guy.’ When Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test during the IPL last year, questions started being raised about his ODI future. Leave alone playing till the 2027 World Cup, questions were raised even about his place in the ODI team. Last year on the Australia tour, when he was out for zero in the first two matches, the noise against him increased even more. After that, Kohli did something which stunned all the critics. No one has the courage to question his ODI future. Kohli made a comeback with an unbeaten half-century in the third and final ODI of the series against Australia. Since then, he has played fifty plus innings in 6 out of 7 ODIs, of which 3 are centuries.
