After heartbreak, Virat Kohli speaks of new inspiration [video]

Here’s how Indian star cricketer Virat Kohli takes heart following the team’s shocking and shameful exit from the World T20 on Thursday.

Kohli takes inspiration from Amir Hussain Lone – the amputated cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir, whose story has become a rage across social media platforms.

Posting a YouTube clip of the courageous young man, Kohli tweeted, ‘Never lose hope, life never ends, it only begins. Hats off to this young man’.

Never lose hope, life never ends, it only begins. Hats off to this young man. https://t.co/zL057q9L66

— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) April 1, 2016

Lone lost both his arms in an accident in 1997 when he was just eight years old. But that did not deter him from follow his passion.

Today, the 26-year-old, is the captain of Jammu & Kashmir's para team.

Lone bats by keeping the willow between his neck and chin and bowls with his legs.

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