Virat Kohli's trainer reveals the squash player who inspired him to be the fittest

Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli is an inspiration for millions across globe t only for his cricket but also because of his fitness. Kohli is arguably one of fittest cricketers in world right w. At a time when cricketers all around world are busy with ir workload manment, right-handed batsman has been on road n-stop without any trouble whatsoever.

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31-year-old is currently top-ranked batsman in ODIs and T20Is and is well ahead of his contemporaries. He is only batsman in world right w with an aver of more than 50 across all three formats. Besides his accomplished batting, Kohli has also impressed fans with his fitness.

Dipika Pallikal was Kohli’s inspiration to train harder: Shankar Basu

However, very few kw that Kohli too was inspired by someone. Former Team India trainer Shankar Basu, who is w only involved with Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL franchise which Kohli captains, recently revealed that Dipika Pallikal, star Indian squash player and cricketer Dinesh Karthik‘s wife, was Kohli’s inspiration to train harder. During a recent promotional event, Basu told reporters of a leading media house that Kohli used to train only in IPL during first two-three years, but he was inspired hugely after watching Dipika Pallikal train.

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Basu added that India skipper was astonished to learn about demands of an individual sport. former India trainer said that after watching squash player train, Kohli asked Basu to mould his training module as if he is doing so for playing an individual sport. Kohli is definitely one of fittest cricketers around at moment but Basu said re was still room for more improvement as he has never stopped himself from pushing harder and enhancing his performance.

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Basu concluded that Kohli can explore more and added right-hander kws that sky is limit in fitness. He has often insisted that Kohli must make likes of Usain Bolt and vak Djokovic as his idols and that he has miles to go. celebrity fitness trainer lauded Indian skipper's attitude and said that he was constantly looking for that extra edge; something extra that enhanced his performance.

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