Virat Kohli without a shirt looks like Bruce Lee: Kapil Dev

Former Indian skipper Kapil Dev seems to have developed a special liking for the current Test skipper Virat Kohli. Days after backing him to break Brian Lara’s record for the highest individual Test score of 400* he has said that the level of fitness that Kohli displays at the moment, he resembles Bruce Lee.

Kapil was quoted by indiatoday.in saying, “Kohli is very careful and works very hard. I just saw a photograph of Kohli without a shirt and he looked like Bruce Lee,”

Virat has over the years put in a lot of hard work behind his body and fitness coupled with a strict diet and that is what reflects in his endurance on the field as well as the physical appearance. He has on multiple occasions said that he has earned this level of energy and fitness the harder way and would always want to maintain it. Kapil further said, “You want to raise your own bar for the kind of body you want to have.”

Earlier in a column for the same portal the World Cup winning Indian skipper had said, “Mark my words. Virat Kohli will make 400 plus in a Test match,”

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He also wants to be marked the first cricketing guru to have bet his trade on Kohli to break Lara’s impossibly sized record. “Remember I said this first,” Dev said.

“At his age, Sachin Tendulkar was more talented. But then he had that mental block. He would get to a hundred and then get into a rut,”

“There has been a tremendous improvement in Kohli. Still, I would say Sachin was more talented. But Kohli is the type who will tear an attack apart. With so many Test matches coming up this season (17 featuring India) I am sure Kohli will find the perfect pitch to his liking on which he could threaten the world record 401. I know many pitches will be turners in the home season, but I am sure Kohli will get one or two perfect pitches. I am sure one day soon the record will be in danger.” He had said.

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