Pause, rewind, play: Virat Kohli and Nasser Hussain come together for a masterclass of masterclasses

The year 2020 has been an exception but, it would not be a stretch to say that in the recent past the amount of men’s international cricket played around the world was perhaps at an all time high. Top cricketers are constantly playing one format or the other, shuttling across countries for tours (or leagues) and in all that time, they do the bare minimum of media work. One does not get to hear too many patient interviews from the top players – pre-match and post-match conferences are the most one can hope for and those are, at their best, fragmented and, at their worst, rushed and cliched.

But in January 2017, during England’s tour of India, former England captain Nasser Hussain and an excellent team at Sky Cricket managed to give the cricketing world something rare: a technical peek behind the run-machine that is Virat Kohli.

To understand where Kohli was, in terms of his own form at that point, you only have to look at his numbers from 2016. The Indian captain averaged more than 75 in all three international formats: 75.93 in Tests, 92.37 in ODIs, 106.83 in T20Is. And let’s not forget the sensational year he had in IPL where he averaged a ridiculous...Read more

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