Former Australia white-ball specialist David Hussey said on Tuesday that you don’t write off champion cricketers like Virat Kohli, whose strike rate in T20s is a talking point of late.

Talking on the sidelines of the launch of the tie-up between former Mumbai batsman and national selector Jatin Paranjape’s KheloMore, a digital platform that gives access for sport, and the Melbourne Cricket Academy (MCA), Hussey said: “Virat seems to take his game to a new level. You never write off champions like Steve Smith, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma. I’m sure Virat is going to be a dominant force [in the World Cup] that he has been for the better part of the decade. You never write off your champions.”