Picture yourself waking up in Virat Kohli’s hotel bed on Sunday morning — not like that, obviously — and imagine for a minute how much sleep you might have managed through the night. A minute, in fact, would be pretty good going.
Sportspeople are not normal; the restless nights that precede the biggest days more likely to be born of kid-at-Christmas fever than the kind of anxious dread that would no doubt afflict mortals like you or I. Even for the superhuman, though — and Kohli ranks top of that class — days like these must do something different.