Virat Kohli wouldn't be measured only by the runs scored said Sourav Ganguly in an interview. Ganguly is somehow right in saying these words. Kohli is on that level where one success or failure won't be the yardstick for measuring his greatness, but there is somethingh that would make kohli a little more worried than usual about this England tour.

As we all know that unless a batsman has done well in England for years. The fact is that Kohli scored only 134 runs in 10 innings in 2014 and it put a serious question mark against the moving ball for his ability and that is one reason for the Indian Captian so that he would improve it.

For the prepration of England tour he has set up an elobrated plans when he signed up for a country stint and Survey,only to back out citing an injury. After IPL,he said he needed rest. "Virat has played only a limited number of test matches in England and know his record is near the high quality as he has achieved everywhere else".

The right-hander, who has been going superb across all formats,isn't going into this series underprepared,though. The ODIs and the T20s preceeded the Tests and Kohli has got the time to acclimatize himself to conditions. But of cource, test cricket will pose different set of challenges.

As the red Duke ball will swing a bit more and James Anderson will come into the scene. In 2014 , Kohli is having lunch, brak-fast and dinner with James Anderson and then after when Kohli returned to India last year with the bat, the Englishman wasn'ttoo charitable with his words

"we dont know how good he is in England".

Kohli doesn't forget taunts for one. While Kohli is charging his batteries to give back Anderson a solid answer, the paceman didn't minded few games of his own

"it doesn't matter if he gets runs or not?i think he is telling lies there",

Trying to put a little bit stress on the Indian skipper said Anderson a couple of days back.But we all know that Kohli is at that stage of his career where these mindgames won't affect him much. What would affect Kohli is that he is going out on playing his favourite shot ,the cover drive. He had to consentrate on this fact why he is going out on his favourite shot. It would affect him much than these mindgames.

Kohli has to play in the pitches on England, looks a half-volley without doing movement on the pitch which then turns into a spitting cobra. He will need to face and leave more deleiveries, and not to do something that he is not used to do, let the ball come to him rather than go for it.As we all know, in 2011, the magnificent batting performance of Rahul Dravid in England would be the best coaching for the Indian Skipper Virat Kohli.

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