There was a time when Virat Kohli was the proud owner of that rare all-format batting template. Tests to ODI to T20 and back – he would change his jersey and gears but he was always Kohli. A child of the 90s, he had seen Sachin Tendulkar for far too long to give up on correctness. The celebrated Australian cricket writer Gideon Haigh would sum up Kohli’s commitment to cricket’s ethos with an iconic line: “Much as the marketers would love to take cricket out of T20, Kohli keeps putting it back in.” Finally, it seems Kohli’s long resistance is waning. This isn’t about the batting great’s deficiencies as a T20 batsman, more about cricket’s slow walk towards the exit in the game’s shortest format. A proof of these tumultuous transitional times is this puzzling contraction that is floating around this IPL. Despite being the highest run-getter for the first-half of season’s IPL, questions are being asked about Kohli’s place in the Indian side for the World T20. For most of this month a bunch …