The Indian captain Virat Kohli who he hitting tonnes of runs said that he’s is no longer satisfied with Test hundreds and his fitness level allows him to play for longer innings and eye bigger scores.
“I worked on my fitness level over the years and I feel I can go for longer periods now. I don’t get tired as much as I used to before. Definitely, I don’t get satisfied when I get a Test hundred which used to be before, because I used to give too much importance to Test cricket separately. Now I have started to treat it as any game of cricket and I have to keep going on till the time the team needs to,” said the Delhi batsman.
Asked how he has been able to maintain consistency across the three formats, he said, “It is not easy to do especially with the amount of cricket we play nowadays. It is more of a mental thing. I don’t necessarily focus too much on practice because sometimes you might not get to practice so much.
“I think mentally you need to focus and think about what you are going to do in the game.
Switching to different formats is the need of the hour in these days’ cricket. I certainly want to contribute in all three formats. That has always been the mindset and I have to prepare in a certain way. It is more mental than going into the nets.”
He, however, admitted that the Hyderabad pitch was not as testing as other wickets on which he had scored his double centuries earlier.
