TIL Desk Sports/ His meticulous plan of preparing for the England tour with a county stint was thrown out of gear by injury but fit-again Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli said on Friday missing that before the tour of England has turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
“In hindsight, when I look at it now, it’s the best thing that has happened for me. I wanted to go and experience as this is the place where we haven’t played so much as there’s big gap of four years and you forget what conditions were when you played last time,” Kohli said in a press conference ahead of team’s departure for UK on Friday night.
“I would have gone there feeling 90 percent rather than 110 percent that I feel right now. I would rather be like this as I needed to be fresh for the tour. Although not intended but this is the best thing to have happened,” he added. His poor show during the last tour of England had come under intense scrutiny but Kohli feels that critics have “held on” to the 2014 tour for far “too long”.
