India, Feb. 19 -- The last time Virat Kohli played in the Champions Trophy, it was the closest he came to winning an ICC trophy as captain of the Indian senior men's cricket team. The year was 2017, and Kohli was set to win his first major ICC trophy just months after he succeeded MS Dhoni as India's limited-overs captain. India were up against Pakistan in the final and given how the Men in Blue had dominated their arch-rivals in the previous game, the summit clash was predicted to be another one-way route. But on the day when it mattered the most, Pakistan flipped the script and dished out a 180-run drubbing to India to win their first ICC title after 8 years.

No one saw it coming, Kohli included. In the years that followed, Kohli event...