Former India wicket-keeper batter Dinesh Karthik recalled how Virat Kohli shared his ambition of standing with his arms aloft at the famous Lord’s Cricket Stadium in England before the 2018 tour. Before that, Kohli had only one Test match at the historic venue, scoring 25 runs in two innings in 2014, including a golden duck. However, he recently announced his retirement.

“In 2018, when I spoke to him, when I was on the same tour, and during IPL, when I spoke to him, he told me about visualizing standing with his arms up in Lord’s, and he went on to achieve it, not at Lord’s, but he got a hundred in Bimingham, but the way he batted through the series, the scores are there for you all to see,” Dinesh Karthik said on Cricbuzz.

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He also explained how, with his intensity and aggression, Virat Kohli managed to change Test cricket into something worth playing and watching as well.

“Test cricket was played in a very simple, orthodox manner till the time this man took it upon himself to change the way, to change the intensity with which it was played. He brought that through with fitness, work ethic, and how he played,” Dinesh Karthik said.

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“He almost made you feel that we were a lot more aggressive than the usual teams that were aggressive, like Australia. He took it upon himself, he would go at them. He is willing to take on the opponent, he is willing to take on the crowd, he is willing to do anything to win a game of cricket,” Dinesh Karthik concluded.