The Indian stalwart, Virat Kohli has been quite vocal about the struggles he went through during a lean phase of his storied career before the turnaround at the Asia Cup 2022. Kohli took a break from cricket for a month to rediscover his love for the game. He went through a century drought, across formats, that lasted nearly three years. At the 2022 Asia Cup, he ended the long wait with a maiden T20I century before subsequently hitting centuries in an ODI later that year and then a Test hundred last month.

In a conversation with Robin Uthappa on JioCinema, Virat Kohli recalled how his wife Anushka Sharma kept him grounded and helped him handle public pressure.

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AS per the quotes in News18, Virat Kohli said, “When you go back from a space like this. It’s easy immediately to go like ‘ah, everything is so good and it’s okay’. That’s why I say Anushka’s name first because she has seen the challenges of being in this position. She knows it. She has been there for so many years. She knows what it takes to handle public pressure. So, her conversations with me has always been priceless. She tells me the truth, simple.”

Virat Kohli admits that had it not been for Anushka, he would have become an ‘egoistic maniac’.

Explaining the same, former Indian skipper said, “There is no mollycoddling. Because no one else is (real). there are always so many layers. She is like, my responsibility is to tell you the truth. So, how she spoke me during that phase was something that kept me in check. If I was left by myself just to figure it out, I would have become an egoistic maniac.”

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He further added, “I would have become snappier, even more cranky but for her to keep bringing me down to the base level where two people should be at the same level, to be normal, to grow together.”