Former Indian captain Virat Kohli ended his century drought against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup 2022. Kohli's bat scored a century in international cricket after 1020 days when he played an unbeaten inning of 122 runs against Afghanistan. This was the 71st century of Virat Kohli's career. This century came out as an opener from Kohli's bat because Rohit Sharma was not playing in that match. In such a situation, questions are now being raised about whether Kohli should open in the upcoming matches as well. Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has given his opinion on this question.
As an opener, Kohli has played 9 matches in T2-International cricket so far in which he has scored 400 runs at a strike rate of 57.14. During this, his strike rate has been 161.29. This is the reason that there is talk of playing Kohli as an opener in the corridors of cricket.
When this question was asked to Ponting, he said to the ICC, 'We have been asking this question and I am sure that the Indian selectors are also asking the same question whether it will help Virat to score 100 runs in batting as much as we thought. , does it cause more problems than that? What are we going to do now to go to the World Cup?'
He further said, 'So there are some other questions which may have been raised after that glorious century. He himself said after this century that he was surprised that his first century would come back in this format. He thought it would be his last option to score his maiden century in a few years.
