Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Virat Kohli has been woefully out of form, having last made a hundred in any form of cricket back in November 2019 when he scored his maiden century in a Day-Night game. But his willow has hardly fired since then and his barren run is showing no signs of coming to an end.

Experts, including Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, have asked him to take a break from the sport.

On the other hand, Dilip Vengsarkar, the man who discovered him during his U-19 days, argues that the 33-year-old looks like a tired warhorse at the moment and needs to rejuvenate himself by taking his mind away from cricket for some time.

Meanwhile, his old RCB mate Kevin Pietersen has suggested he take a “chill pill.”

Almost everybody is of the view that Kohli needs to spend a lot of time in the nets to resurrect his career at this stage, or else it would be too late for him.

ClutchPoints spoke to senior cricket journalist G Rajaraman, who was earlier the media manager of Delhi-based IPL franchise, Delhi Capitals and he pointed out flaws in Virat Kohli‘s technique.

According to him, the star batter's play was questionable as he continuously fell for deliveries that were bowled way outside his off-stump.

The spinners were posing serious problems for him too with the incoming balls from particularly off-spinners giving him a lot to think about as he was getting out either LBW or bowled on them.

It is a shocking turnaround for a player who used to be brilliant against both pace and spin. Now he's not even good enough to tackle average speedsters and tweakers like Wanindu Hasaranga of Sri Lanka.

“He is getting out to balls bowled outside the off-stump, especially driving the ball on the up in the covers. Virat Kohli needs to sort this out quickly, otherwise, I am afraid his struggles with the bat would continue,” Rajaraman told ClutchPoints.

“To sort this issue, he will need a lot of time in the nets. But Kohli unfortunately doesn't have the bandwidth to go back to basics to make a resurrection. So doesn't need time away from the game, instead, he needs to spend as much time as possible on the practice ground,” he added.

Kohli's numbers in this edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have been dismal, to say the least.

He has accumulated just 236 runs in 13 games with a solitary fifty.

If one analyses Kohli's numbers further, it would feature three golden ducks (first ball dismissals), three scores of less than 10, and only a single half-century in what has been an extremely disappointing run for the Delhi-born batter in the cash-rich league.

Even changing positions in the batting order hasn't helped him. When the IPL started last month, Kohli was the No.3 batsman for RCB. But after he failed to produce meaningful performances there, the team management decided to move him up the ladder. However, that move didn't work out either.

It is hard to fathom Virat Kohli's barren spell. After all, who would have thought that a player who had made scoring hundreds his signature would even struggle to hit double digits?

Strangely his issues have become more prominent in white-ball cricket, something where he used to be a dominant force not so long ago.

He is the fastest to 12,000 runs in the One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and is among a select group of batters who average more than 50 in T20Is. In domestic T20s, Kohli averages well over 36 in comparison to another India behemoth Rohit Sharma's 30.45.

Yet Virat Kohli doesn't seem to know how he could end his present rut.

The only thing probably both the ex-India skipper and cricket fans could hope for is that luck goes his way and he shines in his next match against Gujarat Titans on Thursday.