rtmohanlal Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Virat has been in top form over the last 2 years or so as we all know .What not, he even emphatically turned it around in ENG , his only bogey country.Based on all these facts he was expected to perform hugely in AUS. But in this series he has been relatively quiet till now .We can claim that the bowling was relatively tougher, he was a bit hard done by that catch decision at Perth etc etc.But yet, what ever way we look at it he has been way off from his normal high standards. This is most reflected in the on going Sydney test. Mayank,Vihari,Pant all has been making substantial runs, let alone Pujara , but he disappointed.And his most telling contribution came in the Perth test where all others failed, in other words on the most difficult pitch of all as of now.That in turn tells there has been no problems what so ever w.r.t his cricketing ability.So what has gone wrong??? I feels strongly that the captaincy burden is getting too much for him.Thoughts. Link to comment
Cricketics Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 He scored in England the most where the pressure was 100 times more on him since he had an extremely poor record in Englannd before the recent series and then he also scored and SA and was our best player in the toughest series of all 3 in terms of facing the attack of South Africa in South Africa. So don’t think its pressure. I will keep him as test captain for a long time as he bats well and knows how to win overseas in a test match. I will assess his ODI captaincy and probably take it away from him after the world cup even if we win or not. knowing Kohli, I knownhe will give ODI captaincy away after this world cup even if we win the world cup. manu4411 and sarcastic 1 1 Link to comment
mancalledsting Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 no he just needs to skip more pointless LOIs express bowling 1 Link to comment
diga Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 He should stop playing t20 internationals after world cup.. he should just concentrate on getting 10000 test runs Link to comment
Deleted_User_1 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, diga said: He should stop playing t20 internationals after world cup.. he should just concentrate on getting 10000 test runs Good luck with that one! Link to comment
rkt.india Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Kohli should not captain LOI sides SK_IH and flamy 2 Link to comment
Vijy Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 don't think so. but he should give up LOI captaincy, play fewer bilaterals and also manage his IPL workload carefully. Ind need him in prime conditions for tests, esp in SENA. Link to comment
R!TTER Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) It will affect him eventually, every captain has that honeymoon period where runs come easily & results take care of the rest. Let's hope he steps down from LO to concentrate more on tests & lessen his burden. Also the toss - does anyone remember how he wins way more tosses in LO than tests Edited January 4, 2019 by R!TTER Link to comment
express bowling Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) Kohli in tests as captain Tests 46 Average 63 Strike rate 61 100s 18 200s 6 Highest 243 Kohli in tests as ordinary player Tests 31 Average 41 Strike rate 51 100s 7 200s 0 Highest 169 Kohli is still the 3rd highest run getter in this tough series with a 123 on the toughest pitch of the series and a fighting 83 in the next match. No one can be the highest scorer in every tough series. Edited January 4, 2019 by express bowling Vijy, manu4411 and Cricketics 3 Link to comment
Vijy Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 1 minute ago, express bowling said: Kohli in tests as captain Tests 46 Average 63 Strike rate 61 100s 18 200s 6 Highest 243 Kohli in tests as ordinary player Tests 31 Average 41 Strike rate 51 100s 7 200s 0 Highest 169 Kohli is still the 2nd highest run getter in this tough series with a 123 on the toughest pitch of the series and a fighting 83 in the next match. No one can be the highest scorer in every tough series. he is now the 3rd highest though. pant outscored him thanks to this daddy 100. it was still a pretty good series for VK though. express bowling and Cricketics 2 Link to comment
express bowling Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 2 hours ago, mancalledsting said: no he just needs to skip more pointless LOIs Exactly. mancalledsting 1 Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 What cos he failed in one innings (unlucky strangled down leg) lol Some of these threads are complete over reactions. Maybe he needs to go to the pak coaching clinic under flower? express bowling, The Dark Horse, Soumo and 1 other 4 Link to comment
SUMO Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 He should give up IPL T20Is captaincy for sure. Play selective LoIs. Link to comment
mishra Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) People need to remember that cricket is team game. In England, He made Indian batting all about himself( worse and most ugly display was when he made Pujara sacrifice his wicket in that run out where it should have been him going to pavalliin) which sent absolutely wrong signal. Runs will come. For first time, Kohli seems to be accepting it as team game and thats a good thing. Edited January 4, 2019 by mishra Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 8 minutes ago, mishra said: People need to remember that cricket is team game. In England, He made Indian batting all about himself( worse and most ugly display was when he made Pujara sacrifice his wicket in that run out where it should have been him going to pavalliin) which sent absolutely wrong signal. Runs will come. For first time, Kohli seems to be accepting it as team game and thats a good thing. Kohli never accepted its team game. Made it all about himslef as he scored lots of runs. Like he didnt want others to score runs and always wanted to walk in 10-2 lol Some of these posts and threads are getting more stupid by the day lol philcric and mancalledsting 2 Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Guys many you hate kohli many and channel it even more different and weird ways to slate him. Bonkers the mob. We winning historic test series in oz. Suck it up chumps its happening and Kohli is skpper of winning team! mancalledsting and Virat_Fangirl 2 Link to comment
ShoonyaSifar Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Not sure about that but he does need to start believing lot more in his shorter formats captaincy, show some foresight, b bolder with his team selections and stop bowing before the grandpas. If he cannot do that, should handover LOI captaincy to Rohit after the WC. Link to comment
mishra Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 27 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said: Kohli never accepted its team game. Made it all about himslef as he scored lots of runs. Like he didnt want others to score runs and always wanted to walk in 10-2 lol Some of these posts and threads are getting more stupid by the day lol Doesnt changes the facts. Indian team captain job is not to be best buddies or best bat. His job is to identify key resources delegate responsibility and win the game. Ideally , i would like it ti be fair but Hook or crook. Gentleman not gentleman. I give a damn. Win it Link to comment
putrevus Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 He is doing just fine, the best captain India ever had, leave him alone. Link to comment
rtmohanlal Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 17 hours ago, King Tendulkar said: What cos he failed in one innings (unlucky strangled down leg) lol Some of these threads are complete over reactions. Maybe he needs to go to the pak coaching clinic under flower? So , just because he failed in 1 inns & because of his 1 bad luck(but he already had scored 123 for the inns) , his avg: has remained a mere 40 compared to his very high standards?? That is where such doubts arises... If he avg:ed around 45 for the series, I wouldn't have even doubted in these lines. Link to comment
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