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Virat Kohli started India’s Australia tour with a century but finished the five-match series with 190 runs at an average of 23.75.
Virat Kohli is at peace with himself and his career. (AP Photo)
Virat Kohli still gets disappointed when he fails but admits that in the twilight of his career, the opportunity to right the wrongs of his past will be rare. And he has made peace with the fact.
Fresh from India‘s triumph in the ICC Champions Trophy, Kohli revisited their forgettable Test tour of Australia that began on a promising note last November. After winning the five-match series opener in Perth, India lost three of the remaining four games. Kohli too began with a sparkling century in the first Test but finished the tour with 190 runs from 9 innings and an average of 23.75.
And the 36-year-old Kohli is aware that he might not get another opportunity to tour Australia for a Test series again.
“If you ask me the intensity of how disappointed I’ve been… for me the most recent Australia tour would be the one that’s most fresh,” Kohli said during a talk session at the RCB Innovation Lab. “So, it might feel the most intense to me. But I can’t look at it that way. I might not have an Australia tour again in me in four years’ time.”
“I don’t have the chance to correct it. So you have to make peace with whatever’s happened in your life. Like in 2014 (against England) I still had the chance to go in 2018 and do what I did. It might not have been the case,” he added.
Kohli himself was hopeful of a productive outing during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
“Once you start thinking of the disappointment from the outside, then you start burdening yourself way more,” Kohli said. “That’s something that I’ve surely experienced in Australia as well. Because I got a good score in the first Test. I thought, right, let’s go. There’s going to be another big series for me. It didn’t turn out that way. How do you cope up with this? For me, it’s just about acceptance. This is what happened. I’m going to be honest with myself.”
Kohli will next be in action at the IPL 2025 for Royal Challengers Bengaluru.