CHENNAI: The floodlights at the MA Chidambaram Stadium hadn’t yet flickered on, but Virat Kohli was already at work, fine-tuning his strokes on Thursday. That, in a nutshell, would tell you how charged the champion batter is to make it count against a team that has bothered him through his illustrious IPL career. And even after that intense session, he wasn’t quite done.
At the pre-match press talk, RCB mentor Dinesh Karthik, in awe of Kohli’s pursuit of perfection, said: “I spoke to him just now as I came out and he said that he wanted to work on one more shot. At this point of time, to work on one more shot tells you the hunger he has. He wants to just improve and keep raising the bar. He’s a special player. The way I see it, he’s batting as confidently and as well as he has ever done in IPL.”
