Virat Kohli debuted in international cricket under the captaincy of MS Dhoni, and he is still in awe of the former skipper. In a recently published RCB podcast, Kohli opened up on his relationship with Dhoni.
Kohli mentioned during the podcast that a message from Dhoni kept him positive when he was out of form. He shared one such rare instance when Dhoni sent a message to him on how to deal with failures.
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“He reached out to me and you can rarely get in touch with him. If I call him on any random day, 99 percent he will not pick up (the phone), because he just does not look at the phone. So, for him to reach out to me…twice it has happened now and one of the things that he’d mentioned in the message while reaching out to me was that: ‘when you are expected to be strong and looked at as a strong individual people forget to ask how are you doing?’
He further added, “So, it (Dhoni’s words) hit home for me because I have always been looked at as someone who is very confident, mentally very strong, who can endure any circumstances and find a way and show us the way. Sometimes, what you realise is that at any given point of time in life as a human being you need to take a couple of steps backwards, understand how you are doing, how your wellbeing is placed.”