Virat Kohli. File | Photo Credit: AFP
Keep needs of one-dayers in mind, exhorts India captain
India’s World Cup-bound cricketers will have to take care to stay ready for one-day cricket during the IPL, Virat Kohli has cautioned.
The IPL will begin soon after the end of India’s limited-over series against Australia.
“All the people who are going to be part of the World Cup squad, they have to make sure that their games don’t go too much away from the one-day mould of things,” Kohli said ahead of the first T20 here.
“That means we will have to be very wary of the bad habits that might creep in during the IPL. From a personal point of view, I would look to continue in the same way that I have in all formats over the years and not do anything fancy because frame of mind is the most important thing getting into the World Cup.
“We need 15 people who are confident and mentally happy about where their game is at that particular moment. It will take a consistent effort from all the players during the IPL to keep a check on that.
“The moment you enter the nets and create bad habits, you lose momentum, you lose batting form. It is very difficult to get it back in a tournament like the World Cup.
“Everyone will have to protect that mindset and be aligned towards what the team requires of them.”
Kohli admitted that India may have been better off playing two more ODIs in place of the T20s against Australia.
‘More logical’
“Well, yes that would have been ideal... more, I would say, logical, but that's the way series are compiled nowadays,” he said. “Also, because we are playing so much T20 cricket in the IPL, probably a couple more ODIs would have been more beneficial for both the teams, and not just us.
“But we have to utilise what's in front of us as best as possible.”
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