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Virat Kohli is 37 now, but if you ask anyone on the Indian cricket team about fitness, his name still comes up first. There are plenty of young guys playing for India these days, and they\u2019re doing great, but when it comes to setting the bar, it\u2019s still Kohli. He only plays ODIs these days, but his fitness? Always spot on. In this year\u2019s IPL, he\u2019s already smashed over 550 runs. Just watch him field or run between the wickets \u2014 that drive, that energy, it makes people sit up and take notice. For years, Kohli\u2019s talked about how taking fitness seriously changed everything for him.<\/p>\n
His childhood coach, Rajkumar Sharma, once shared a little story about him on the Express Cafe YouTube channel. He said Kohli is so strict that he doesn\u2019t touch sugar. \u201cI don\u2019t even know how many years it\u2019s been since he stopped having sugar,\u201d Sharma laughed.<\/p>\n
Back in the early IPL days, it wasn\u2019t so easy for Kohli to stay focused. Sharma remembers that time well. Kohli\u2019s just won the junior World Cup and RCB picked him up in the first-ever IPL auction. He was only 17 or 18. RCB was all about the party life \u2014 everyone had to go, and Sharma doesn\u2019t really blame Kohli for getting swept up in that. If you\u2019re that young and surrounded by that atmosphere, how do you avoid it?<\/p>\n
Sharma admits those days tested him as a coach. \u201cI had to scold him a lot,\u201d he said, \u201cand I did a few things I can\u2019t really talk about, just to help guide him. But really, I don\u2019t blame him. At that age, it\u2019s tough to say no to parties. My job was just to make sure he stayed on track. Thankfully, Kohli listened. He understood what he had to do \u2014 and once he got it, he never looked back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, Kohli\u2019s walked away from Tests and T20Is. He\u2019s got his eyes set on the 2027 ODI World Cup. Honestly, you can still see the old hunger, just focused in a new direction.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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