Kohli: Break was ‘to stay in the rhythm of playing red-ball cricket’

NT Correspondent

Indian captain Virat Kohli on Thursday opened up about why he practiced at the Cricket Club of India’s (CCI) Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai for the Test series against New Zealand despite being on a break. “It was just to stay in the rhythm of playing red-ball cricket. The idea was to get repetition and volume which is important in Test cricket, so it is just about getting into the mold of switching between formats. This is something I have always tried to do.” The skipper further added, “Whenever I get the opportunity to work on setting up for different formats, it is more so mentally than anything related to technique. The more cricket you play, the more you understand your game better. It is about getting into the mindset, that headspace where you want to play a certain way in a certain format.”