



People were foolish not to back him and not to support him," Pietersen wrote in his blog for Betway. You cannot play with three people and their dog watching you play cricket.' To see him get that 75th hundred. 'Just chill, dude, it's Covid, you're an entertainer. So passionate, so abrasive, so emotional. Kohli played the IPL 20 while the world was still gripped with Covid-19 as Pietersen revealed what he told Virat when he wasn't performing at his best, despite scoring 466 and 405 runs in 20 respectively. The former England captain called people who ruled Kohli out as 'foolish', while adding that playing in front of empty stadiums had an adverse impact on him. This year however, things appear bright for Kohli and RCB alike, and one of the many to keep a close eye on Virat will be Kevin Pietersen. He did fight back to score two half-centuries but even during those innings, Kohli looked far from his fluent best. In IPL 2022, Kohli got out to three golden ducks, making him the 13th player to put up such an unwanted record. Last IPL, Kohli scored 341 runs from 16 matches, and while it wasn't his worst-ever returns, it certainly was one that saw him plummet to a new low. Kevin Pietersen says Virat Kohli felt 'hurt' during the Covid pandemic. After scoring his maiden T20I at last year's Asia Cup, Kohli also ended his over three-year-long wait in Tests when he slammed his 28th in the drawn India vs Australia Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Ahmedabad, right in time before the IPL much to the delight of the Royal Challengers Bangalore and its fans. The second-half of 2022 marked the return to form for Kohli as the star India batter not only ended his century drought, but peeled off two ODI hundreds in three innings to show glimpses of the old Virat. After a disappointing season last year, Virat Kohli will enter the IPL 2023 in red-hot form.
