The former New Zealand allrounder Scott Styris is of the view that India’s premier batsman Virat Kohli shouldn’t return to the Indian team for the upcoming tour of Zimbabwe. He should rather take a prolonged break from cricket altogether and return straightaway to the Asia Cup.
According to Scott Styris, who was speaking on Sports 18, Kohli can’t really achieve anything on the Zimbabwe tour. Even if he gets to the three-figure mark in one of the ODIs there, it won’t really make too much of a difference to his confidence. It’s when he does it at a bigger stage that he will get his confidence and mojo back.
Styris is very sure about the fact that Kohli has got strong backing from the Indian management and they have a strategy in their mind to get Kohli back in form, but Styris insists that the Indian management shouldn’t try and ease Kohli into the game through Zimbabwe tour.
Virat Kohli has not been able to get to the three-figure mark in any format of the game for almost three years now and after taking a break post IPL, he has requested another break from BCCI before the West Indies tour.
Let Kohli have a bit of extra time off : Scott Styris
Kohli has, however, reportedly conveyed to the board that after the tour of West Indies, he would be available for all the tours coming up, including the tour of Zimbabwe, and since BCCI also wants Kohli to score some runs and get his mojo back, there is a strong possibility that India’s talismanic batsman gets picked for Zimbabwe tour.
But, Scott Styris is not in favor of that at all and he wants the Indian selectors to keep Kohli away from the game for a bit of extra time and just let him freshen himself because even at this stage of his career, he is an extremely vital part of the Indian set-up.
