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T20 World Cup 2022: Make runs which creates an impact – Gautam Gambhir advice to Virat Kohli

Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir has adviced Virat Kohli to score impactful runs in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Gambhir feels Kohli’s main focus should be on helping the team win and not create individual records.

Kohli has a great record while playing in the Australia conditions. He has scored 451 runs in 11 T20Is in Australia at an average of 64.42. The right-hander has been a consistent performer for the Indian team and he is going to hold the key.

Furthermore, the talisman has returned back to prime form. He scored a total of 276 runs in five matches in the Asia Cup at an average of 92 and a strike rate of 147.59. Subsequently, he scored a fine fifty in the deciding T20I against Australia and scored an unbeaten knock of 49 runs in the second game against South Africa.

Gautam Gambhir said while talking to Star Sports, “The mindset of scoring runs, and effective ones, with the help of which your team wins. No point in scoring runs that just go in your records or fifties or hundreds. Even if you make 40 or even 20, make it at such a rate that it helps your team post 170-180. And if you’re chasing, make sure that it takes the pressure off your middle order.”

“When you go in such tournaments, you have to keep your personal records at home. Individual records don’t matter in such tournaments. Even if you score 200 runs in the tournament and your team wins, that will be your legacy. But if you score 500 runs and the team gets knocked out, then those runs are of no use.”

Kohli is going to hold the key for the Indian team while batting at number three and he will be a glue between the top order and the middle order.

The right-hander from Delhi scored 19 runs in the warm-up match against Australia at the Gabba, Brisbane on Monday.

India will begin their T20 World Cup campaign against Pakistan at the MCG on Sunday.

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