Rohit Sharma Gave A Mouth-Shutting Reply To Virat Kohli’s Critics

Rohit Sharma Gave A Mouth-Shutting Reply To Virat Kohli’s Critics: Ahead of the upcoming T20 World Cup 2022, Virat Kohli’s form has become the biggest talking point in the cricket fraternity off-lately. Virat Kohli is arguably one of the greatest batters and biggest match-winners in the last decade. However, a lot of pressure has been put on Virat Kohli, who has been going through a rough patch.

Virat Kohli Is Struggling To Score Runs

Virat Kohli has been under the scanner because of his inconsistent performances and poor form, especially after he relinquished the T20I captaincy which made BCCI sack him from the ODI captain’s post too. Ever since then, things have only gone downhill for the batting maestro.

It was three years ago when Virat Kohli last scored a century and since then, apart from a few half-centuries he has been dismissed cheaply across formats He has been struggling for runs and because of the same reason, he has been receiving criticism from all corners for the same, including some of the legendary Indian cricketers.

Rohit Sharma Gave A Mouth-Shutting Reply

However, Indian captain Rohit Sharma has finally opened up about the disappointing form of Virat and has given a mouth-shutting reply to his critics.

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma — Image Source – WION

Well, after the 3rd T20I match, speaking at the post-match press conference, Rohit Sharma was asked about the form of Virat Kohli and he made it clear that the team is going to back the former captain.

“I don’t know who are the experts who comments on players spot. We back player seeing their quality, if someone has been great for a decade we can’t just see what has happened over last few years”.

He added: “form is something which goes up and down, but the quality of the player remains the same. We should keep this mind before making comments on other players, we know the importance of each player”.

“I don’t know why the experts are being called experts. They don’t know what goes inside, we have discussions behind picking a team, we pick the players and back them. This isn’t known by the outsiders. The thing matters to us is what happens inside”.

Rohit also made it clear that the team isn’t listening to the outside noise. He said: “We are not listening to outside noise, we know what is going inside, what is going outside doesn’t matter for us – we know the quality of each & every player”.

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