Despite the country having played two T20I bilateral series after the main championship, Virat Kohli has not represented India in T20Is since the 2022 T20 World Cup.
Virat Kohli hasn’t played for India in T20Is since the 2022 T20 World Cup, despite the fact that India played two bilateral T20I series after the main tournament. Kohli amassed the most runs (296 total) during six games at the 2022 T20 World Cup. He scored half-centuries in four of the matches.
Concerns have been raised about his future in the game due to his ongoing absence from the T20I team. The subject came up once more during the pre-match press conference before India’s third ODI against New Zealand. The India head coach, Rahul Dravid, was present at the news conference. A journalist began to ask, “Until last year, Virat’s place in the T20I team was in doubt. Not by us, sir,” when Dravid cut him off. Absolutely not, never by us!
Dravid responded, “There are certain white-ball events we need to give importance to at various moments of time,” when asked why Kohli wasn’t playing in the T20Is despite being named to the ICC’s T20I team of the year (2022).
The amount of cricket we play, the World Test Championship, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, as well as prospective qualification and crucial games for us in terms of qualifying These six matches received special consideration in numerous white-ball competitions following the T20 World Cup.
As you’ve seen, Virat has played all these six games. He’ll get a bit of a break along with Rohit and 1 or 2 other guys in the next week while we play some T20I cricket. And they come refreshed on the 2nd and we have a good week’s camp before we play Australia. So yeah, it’s just priorities. We have to prioritize certain formats.”
India next play against New Zealand in the final ODI of a three-match series on Tuesday. The Rohit Sharma-led side has already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.