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The fall in sport is cruel, inevitable and hard to digest
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Life in the shadows: Questions are being asked about Indian star Virat Kohli's Test cricket future after his under-par performance in Australia.
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In sport, this is the guarantee. Falls will be hard. The boxer sent to the canvas. The rugby winger brought to earth. The gymnast slipping off the high bar. And the hero tumbling from his pedestal.
The fall is different from the rise because it’s inevitable. It comes with warnings but they are brushed aside till the truth becomes incontestable. There it is, on TV, in conversations, in the way people look at him, in the scoreboards Virat Kohli must flinch from.
