Former India cricketer and presently the member of BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee, Madan Lal, praised Virat Kohli and also backed him to continue being his aggressive self as he thinks this is needed on the ground to win matches.

Kohli’s aggressive behaviour became the headline in the recent tour of New Zealand, where he was seen giving Kane Williamson a send off. Madan Lal, however, said India 'need' an aggressive captain like Kohli as well.
Madan Lal backs Virat Kohli

“I don’t understand why people in India are asking him to mellow down,” Lal told The Times of India. “First, everyone wanted a very aggressive captain and now you want Kohli to stop his aggressive streak. I love the way he is on the field. Earlier, people used to say that Indians are not aggressive; now that we’ve become aggressive people question that and ask why we are so aggressive. I enjoy Kohli’s aggression; we need a captain like him.”

Madan Lal also backed Virat Kohli to return to his formidable form as he had a very poor series with the bat in New Zealand. Not only Kohli, but all the batsmen have failed to live upto the expectations there.

“He was out of form. You can say it was a loss of confidence. That [tour of New Zealand] doesn’t take anything away from him. He is still the world’s best player. At times, technical flaws come in and you then try harder and harder but still you don’t come out of it. It happens to the best of players,” he said.

However, the world is currently dealing with the novel coronavirus which has taken several lives already. It has affected the sports industry too and because of that, multiple sports events have been postponed which included the IPL 2020 edition which was about to begin on March 29, but it has been postponed till April 15 due to the novel coronavirus outbreak across the globe.