India spinner Kuldeep Yadav said he felt as though he had been taken back almost a decade after witnessing Virat Kohli’s innings against South Africa. He opined that the former captain is still batting the way he did between 2016 and 2019. The 37-year-old scored a composed fifty and was quick to convert it into a ton as he took on the opposition bowlers with flair and style.

Speaking to bcci.tv, Kuldeep praised Kohli for his confident knock, saying, “My career started with Virat bhai when he was the captain. The way he batted, I felt I had gone back eight-nine years, the way he was batting in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2016 even. It was a very good innings and he looked very confident. Whatever his shot selection was, the ball was coming nicely off the bat.”