Form goes up, down for everyone; quality of player doesn’t go bad: Rohit on Virat

TIL Desk Sports/ With Virat Kohli making scores of one and 11 in the second and third T20I respectively against England, India skipper Rohit Sharma backed the talismanic batter to come out of his prolonged lean patch, saying that he too had gone through the same phase and it doesn’t make quality of a player bad.

“If you are talking about form, it goes up and down for everyone. The quality of the player doesn’t go bad. We should always keep in mind when such comments are passed around that the quality of a player is never bad. We’re backing that quality, as a player has that and we back it. It’s happened with me; it’s happened with XYZ. There’s nothing new,” said Rohit in the post-match press conference.

Rohit then further questioned the relentless criticism coming for Kohli from some experts who have made comments about him in the media, terming them as people sitting from the outside who aren’t aware of inner workings of the Indian team.