The footwork got edgy, the head swayed far too much, the bat poked uncertainly outside the off-stump – often to the delight of the waiting slip cordon. In his last Test series in Australia last December–January, Virat Kohli looked a pale shadow of the craftsman he once was with the bat. Barring Perth, it seemed he was wrestling with the same demons of self-doubt that haunted him during his struggles with the moving ball on English pitches in 2014.
