The most difficult phase in career of Virat Kohli was from November 2019 to September 2022. He didn't score enough runs, and even struggled to score even a single century in any format. He was visibly angry after each early dismissal. For that, he resigned as T20I and Test captain, not to mention stepping down as RCB captain. But somehow, these changes did not seem to ease the issue. An IPL 2022 photo broke the internet, which saw Kohli with eyes up in the sky and screaming from frustration after getting out for a first-ball duck against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Mumbai. In an interview with sports presenter Jatin Sapru, Kohli opened up about his struggles at that point in time. In a conversation on YouTube, Kohli told Sapru: “Things turning around in a way that they did since I came back because I decided to step away and connect to myself deeply. Doing things from a superficial point of view, which is ‘Who am I to people’, ‘What are they expecting of me’, ‘What am I expecting to go and do’. I was never about how I was feeling, what I wanted to do." He added: “When you go in that phase, it’s very difficult to keep focusing on the middle lane, which has got you to the place that you are in. My focus shifted and I started looking at the situation. I was in the wrong lane. When I came to the lane I was closest to, everything started flowing again. I’m grateful that I got so much learning from that phase." Also Watch | Rohit Sharma's Witty Response to Fan's Question on IPL Watch the video Ending a near two-year phase of suffering, Virat Kohli came back in style with a breathtaking hundred in the Asia Cup 2022 match against Afghanistan. It was his first ever T20I hundred and an end to his perennial lack of runs in international cricket. Also, when Kohli went on to score the hundred, he burst into tears. But when later he rang up his wife Anushka Sharma, again he was tearful. Kohli said: “To be honest, the ball before I got to my hundred, I thought, ‘Oh! I’m on 94, I could probably get this’. And the next ball went for a six. But the moment I got there, I laughed so hard… iske liye ro raha tha do saal se? (I was crying for this for the last two years?). Just for these two seconds, I let myself go through that." He added: “That moment happened and ended. The sun was up again the next day, it wasn’t going to be forever. It wasn’t like pausing that moment when I got the hundred and should stay there forever. It was so funny. And, when I spoke to Anushka, I was in tears."