Virat Kohli is an amazing cricketer and is also the captain of the Indian cricket team. Under his leadership, the Indian team has won many matches. You may all think that Virat Kohli is such a successful person. He is rich and has everything in his life. However, Kohli revealed he went through depression during India's tour of England in 2014 where he felt he was the 'loneliest guy in the world'. Kohli had a disastrous tour of England in 2014, registering scores of 1, 8, 25, 0, 39, 28, 0,7, 6 and 20 in five Tests, averaging 13.50 in his 10 innings - his lowest in a series involving three or more Tests. During the test matches, Virat said James Anderson’s bowling gave him a nightmarish time. He would wake up with a feeling that he won't be able to score runs.

Virat said, “it's not a great feeling to wake up knowing that you won't be able to score runs and I think all batsmen have felt that at some stage that you are not in control of anything at all. You just don't understand how to get over it. That was a phase when I literally couldn't do anything to overturn things...I felt like I was the loneliest guy in the world," 

Kohli remembered feeling alone despite the fact that there were supportive people in his life. He said professional help was what helped him during this time. Kohli said that many people do not open up about depression because they feel it will spoil their name and people will judge them. He said it is important for society to understand that being depressed is not wrong. We must support people and people who are depressed should not be scared to go to doctors for help. There is nothing wrong

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• Virat
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• England
• Depression
• Mental

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