Qualities Virat should imbibe from his seniors

Virat Kohli has grown to be a spectacular cricketer. Though he faced trouble during his initial matches as interim captain while Dhoni was recuperating, he quickly learnt from the mistakes to come back stronger. Even though he is today a phenomenal cricketer and a valuable member of the team, he has quite a lot to learn from the veterans, who will leave the sport sooner or later.Here are but a few things he can learn from his illustrious seniors: How to keep his cool Virat Kohli and Mahendra Singh Dhoni are worlds apart when it comes to their temperament. While Dholi is calm and collected, Virat is aggressive and impulsive. Virat can learn a lot from Captain Cool’s approach to captaining. After all, he is a captain in the making, and he will probably be applying everything he has learnt soon to lead the team to victory. Therefore, learning to remain calm is of utmost importance. A bad decision in an impulsive moment might see the team stumbling in defeatHow to let his bat do the talking Virat is outspoken. While this makes him extremely likable in the eyes of the media (after all, we can always expect to get a quote or two from him), the team, the management and the general public might not see him the same way. Virat’s recent ‘warning’ issued to the Australian team is a good example of that. While being confident in his team is necessary, boasting of it is utterly foolish and infantile. He should learn to put across the point through the game and there is no one better to teach him that than Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar is, without doubt, the best batsman ever. He knows it, the team knows it and every other team knows it. There are no batsman who he hasn’t reduced to rubbles. Going into a match, he could boast of his skills and ‘warn’ the other team. But he doesn’t. He silently smiles and lets his bat remind his opponents who he is.How to be the wall when he needs to be Virat Kohli is an aggressive young cricketer. His aggression is in full display when he comes out to bat. The aggression has, time and again, been the cause of his downfall. If he learns to be more conservative and careful with his bat, he’d grow to be a strong powerful pillar, holding up and strengthening the already strong Indian batting line-up. Who better to learn from than Rahul Dravid Dravid has, countless times, saved the team from defeat by playing it safe, and holding the fort while his partner plays slightly more aggressive shots.