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The Impact of IPL and T20 cricket

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Virat Kohli in 2008, was like a small talented child, ready to get moulded in whichever direction, his mentors wished.  Virat Kohli in 2008 Here the mentors being BCCI, they could have moulded him into a much more substantial player - a great Test batsman alike Sachin Tendulkar. But instead, they gave him the freeway of doing things as per his desire. So the lad obviously focused more on what gives him a better financial output rather than focusing more actually on what he deserved - becoming a great test batsman. His talent was so prodigious that in 2013 it seemed Virat would break all records in all formats by the time he hangs his shoes.  But no, that was not to happen. After a glorious run of 9 years in Test matches, and scoring more than 7500 runs, with 25 test centuries, he decided to focus more on what gave him more money. I wonder how such an intelligent person can ever go greedy! But here we were, watching a new Virat Kohli after 2020. In the last 5 years he has score...