5 Things that set Indian skipper Virat Kohli a class apart from the rest

3. Hard work and commitment towards the game

Virat Kohli never shy away from Hard Work

Virat Kohli was nowhere near the most talented cricketers of his crop when he started playing for India at the highest level. There were several others in India with much better technique than him and having a wider range of shots when he made his international debut for India. But there was something that made him different than the rest and it was his hard work.

His hard work and commitment towards the game made him stand out above the rest. He failed miserably in the Test series against England back in 2014 and his lack of technique against the moving ball left a vast section of critics across the worlds in shock and India’s best batsman was transformed into a flat track bully overnight.

Kohli, however, was not bogged down by the criticism he faced after the disastrous tour and worked even harder on his technical shortcomings. He kept thinking about his game and even sat down to analyse the mistakes he had been making in the tour. He put in the amount of extra effort that was required to rectify his mistakes and bring out the best in him.

Kohli took the horrid tour of England as the biggest learning curve of his career and trained hard day in day out to become the batsman that he is today. It was his eagerness to succeed and prove himself in different conditions that has always kept him pushing for more.

His burning desire to improve his game and learn from his mistakes kept him going in the right direction and has made him an epitome of consistency, across all formats and against each and every opposition in the world.

There was a prominent improvement in technique in his subsequent tours which has allowed him to dominate the best of bowling attacks in their own backyard and produce match-winning performances in different parts of the world.

His batting average in different countries provide further proof of his ruthlessness against every team he has played against, be it at home or overseas.