Ajit Agarkar comments on dropping Virat Kohli from the Indian team

Former Indian speedster Ajit Agarkar feels that it is perhaps too early to talk about former India captain Virat Kohli's future with the Indian team. The veteran has been one of the best batters of the world cricket over the past decade across formats but he has been struggling of late to score big runs.

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While Virat Kohli’s recent form has left the entire cricket fraternity divided, Agarkar said that there are almost fifteen months left until the 2023 ODI World Cup in India, and Kohli will play a crucial role for his country.

Speaking on the show 'The Run Up' on FanCode, Ajit Agarkar said: "At the moment, he (Kohli) is going through a lean patch, which is a fact of life. Every great player or the other has gone through it. Hopefully, for India's sake, he comes out of it sooner or later, because it is the ODI World Cup next year. He has a bit of time before the World Cup. But you don't want a great player like Virat to stay out of form for too long.”

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Meanwhile, former Indian left-arm spinner Murali Kartik, who was also present on the panel on FanCode, backed Kohli, saying it is almost impossible for a player who has scored 70 international centuries, to not know how to score runs. 

He added: "If you look at any sport, the percentage of success is less than the percentage of failure. He has 43 hundred in ODIs and is in search of his 71st (international) hundred. He knows how to get runs. He is a champion player."

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