India’s captain is the best chance we have of countering the global dominance of T20s and one-day internationalsVirat Kohli knows about pressure. He is Sachin Tendulkar for the Twitter generation,with 23.3 million people hanging on his every emoji. When he bats, a country of 1.3 billion fidgets with vicarious need. Most of us can barely cope with trying to make ourselves blissful but Kohli is in a blissful state where pressure is a drug that stimulates all kinds of achievement. He averages more than 50 in all three forms of cricket, and an unprecedented record,and has turned the extraordinary into the everyday.
He probably will not intellect, then, and whether we add a bit more pressure. Virat,you may be the only person who can save Test cricket.
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Source: guardian.co.uk