Former Team India head coach Ravi Shastri has opined on Virat Kohli’s stunning hundred in the second innings of the opening Test against Australia in Perth. Shastri said that he was impressed with Kohli’s composure at the crease and the way he made his way out to the middle as well. The veteran had struggled for runs before the series Down Under and managed only one fifty in the previous three-match series against
New Zealand. After registering a single-figure score in the first innings in Perth, Kohli scored his 30th ton in the second innings as well.

Speaking on the latest episode of the ICC Review, he said: “He came out not like a cat on a hot tin roof. That impressed me the most. Otherwise, a batsman gets out, even before the guy walks 10 yards from the stumps, Virat is halfway down into the ground. Take your time. You are one of the best the world has seen. Let the opposition play at your pace. And that’s exactly what he did in both the innings. In the first innings, he got a good one that bounced. But what I liked immediately was the way he adapted. He went for the back in the crease to counter the bounce, six inches so that it gave him a little more time and basically his composure and the way he moved in the crease.”

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When he was asked how Virat Kohli could continue his good form, Ravi Shastri said that he must keep note of the things he did in Perth and follow the same patterns as well.

“Do the same things. It’s very important when you waited that long. You got to visualize exactly what you did. You might not play the same way, the opposition might not bowl to you the same way as they did in that first half an hour. But the basic things that you did going out to the crease, taking your guard and what you were visualising and thinking, is very important to make a note of and do the same thing again,” Ravi Shastri concluded.