‘Yahi MS Dhoni ki khaas baat hai’ – Virat Kohli reveals MS Dhoni’s deep worded message that helped him overcome his rough patch
Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni have had a 11-year bond together in the Indian dressing room.
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Feb 25, 2023 5:55 pm
MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli (Source:Twitter)
Virat Kohli has poured out on how he was feeling in his difficult phase. He was not the same person he generally was and dropped a big bombshell that MS Dhoni had reached out to him twice in this phase of uncertainty.
Dhoni’s message to Virat made him realise that he needs to take a step back from cricket and give more attention to his mental well-being. Kohli and Dhoni have had a great relationship on the cricket field as it has been a long journey together from 2008 to 2019 in the Indian dressing room.
Kohli had also said on various platforms that Dhoni ensured smooth captaincy transition in the Indian Team when the side was handed over to him and he also said that Dhoni helped a lot from behind the stumps as well even after he quit captaincy.
I was very grateful when Dhoni reached out to me – Virat Kohli
“What is interesting is that throughout this phase apart from Anushka, who has been the biggest source of strength for me because she has been with me throughout this whole time and she has seen me very closely as how have I felt, things that I have gone through, the kind of things that have happened…the only person who, apart from my childhood coach and family…genuinely reached out to me has been MS Dhoni.
“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?’
Kohli went on to say that the former wicket keeper-batter reached out to him because he could relate to what Kohli was going through at that time and could relate to it as Dhoni had been through similar experiences in his long career.
The two also had a wonderful relationship while batting as they were two of the fastest runners between wickets and they just blindly trusted each other’s instinct.
Let us take a look at the reactions on Twitter-
It's Dhoni's personality. He is very caring to everyone.
Wow! What deep lines! Seriously one must understand that even strong people have emotions after all they are also human being! And strong people can only stay strong if he has 2-3 people by his side who ask him how are you doing and care about his emotions ❤️
