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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jonathan Liew at Edgbaston

Virat Kohli is box-office viewing but is India’s hype man becoming a liability?

India's Virat Kohli on day four of the fifth Test match against England at Edgbaston.
Virat Kohli has not scored an international century in any format since 2019 and just had his worst IPL season for 13 years. Photograph: David Davies/PA

In the film Crank, Jason Statham stars as a hitman who – as a result of being poisoned by a rival gangster – will die unless he can maintain his adrenaline above a certain level. To this end he is forced to engage in constant acts of self-stimulation, from taking cocaine to starting random fights to having sex in public.

Not a lot of people outside Hollywood know this. But Statham’s character in that film was based directly on Virat Kohli.

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