PERTH: It was Steve Jobs who once, rather controversially, said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Virat Kohli, having unexpectedly shed a three-year slump in form to transmute into India’s lead batter in the T20 World Cup here, will empathise.
To revitalise his T20 career in these rapidly changing times, Kohli has taken a leaf out of the past. As luck would have it, the conditions in Australia have meant his team has followed suit, underlining the batter’s own importance in his post-captaincy cricketing career.
