Across professions, the desire to get better is often a very good indicator of excellence. When you are starting, getting better is easier. Just a different kind of role for an actor, cutting the fluff out for a writer, getting more accurate for a bowler, keeping shots down for a young batsman, maybe. But as the mistakes become fewer, as success grows, not everyone can keep working on the little things. Sometimes it is laziness, occasionally complacence and often, putting in hard yards for seemingly smaller improvements becomes tedious. Perhaps the most dangerous is the knowledge that not getting better can still produce reasonable success.And so you search for the little things in champions to get an indicator of their hunger. Sometimes the changes are so subtle that the untrained eye cannot spot them, only the opponent can! Sometimes you need to mine numbers, look at charts, look at trends. And that is why, even though this was such a small tour of Australia, and the pitches were as Australian as lassi and rajma, it was fascinating to watch Virat Kohli bat.
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