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| 'Kohli needs to score runs not only for India but also for himself' | | | agencies
NEW DELHI, Aug 27: BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Friday said struggling batting maestro Virat Kohli needs to score runs not only for India but "for himself" too.
In the Asia Cup starting here on Saturday, Kohli will resume the quest to score his first international hundred since 2019, having failed in all his previous attempts.
"He needs to score runs not only for India but for himself. Hopefully it will be a good season for him. We all are confident that he'll come back," Ganguly said during an interaction.
"I'm sure like all of us are waiting for him to get that hundred, he's working for it as well," Ganguly said.
"The chances of getting a hundred in a T20 is less because of the time. But, hopefully, this will be a big season for Kohli."
The 33-year-old former India captain, who was last seen in action in England in June-July, is back after a one-month break that saw him skip two white-ball series in the West Indies and Zimbabwe.
Kohli's highest score in his last five matches has been 20 in India's loss to England in the rescheduled fifth Test at Birmingham.
Having relinquished captaincy at RCB as well, Kohli had a quiet IPL-15, scoring 341 runs from 16 matches at an average of 22.73.
Ganguly, during his interaction with the media on the sidelines of Senco Gold & Diamonds' DG Gold promotional event here, refused to agree that a big player like Kohli can endure a lean patch as long as this.
"He's a very big player, there for a long time. I know he has his own formula to score runs. It's not possible that players of his stature can't have such a long lean patch, I know he will definitely score runs.
"If he was not a great player, he would not have scored so many runs for so long," Ganguly maintained.
Ganguly said the T20 World Cup loss would have little bearing on the outcome of the coming games.
"Since 1992 I've been following Indo-Pak matches closely. In these 30 years we have lost only once. It's not magic that you will always win. You lose once or twice, it's not a big deal," Ganguly said.
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