The South African veteran batsman AB de Villiers praised and backed the out-of-form Virat Kohli in his recent interview given to NDTV. De Villiers was consistently associated with Virat Kohli during the IPL as both the players were part of IPL franchise of Royal challengers Bangalore for 13 years.
AB de Villiers has a great sense of cricket also he is considered as one of the finest cricket analyst along with a successful international cricketer. This is the reason why his statement regarding Kohli matters a lot. He is considered as the closest cricket personality to Virat Kohli instead of any cricketer from the Indian team.
In the year 2014 when Kohli went through a similar patch of his career, Ab de Villiers extended his support to him and also gave a few pieces of advice to recover from it.
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Virat Kohli slammed his last international century in November 2019 against Bangladesh which was his only three figure score in any format of the game, since in the past three years. The back-in-form Virat Kohli is very necessary for the Indian team to win the upcoming tournament of Asia Cup 2022.
So in this context of Virat Kohli, when a journalist from NDTV asked a question to AB de Villiers then he answered, “Virat is one of the greatest cricketers ever to play the game. Form is temporary, class is permanent. Virat remains world-class. Virat and I remain in regular contact. We are friends, and he certainly does not need me to tell him the importance of working hard during a bad patch”.
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