Kohli has raised his profile as batsman in this series

[shortbread]

2 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

 

 

declare . We have enough 

We need more, Shami goes at 4 an over irrespective of the pitch!

[express bowling]

15 minutes ago, shortbread said:

 Shami goes at 4 an over irrespective of the pitch!

His ER is 3.2 in this series 

[chapetmarunga]

should have stayed till the end

[bhakum20]

Damn right! I had created a thread before the series start and my money was on Kohli to be the best batsman, he always seems to raise his game against top guys.

[speedheat]

I have seen some duffers were criticizing kohlis batting in Australia series last year when he was struggling, overrating htb like pujara to moon, quality attack, hostile conditions and this man took his game to next level here, prior to this series he was averaging 70 in south Africa so he knows how to deal with tough conditions, Kudos to kohli for living up to expectations.

[Gollum]

He has been excellent this series but not yet in the SRT-Lara class. And no need to criticize Rahane/Pujara/Vijay....those 3 have stepped up many times to save our asses when Kohli went MIA. Let us use this thread to appreciate Kohli rather than downplaying others. 

[Gollum]

If Kohli has entered SRT class in this series what would you call Rahul's 7 50s in the 2017 Aus home series? Everyone has their time, SRT is SRT because he did such things year after year for at at least 15 out of 24 years in international cricket, often against much more deadly bowling attacks. 

[King Tendulkar]

3 minutes ago, Gollum said:

He has been excellent this series but not yet in the SRT-Lara class. And no need to criticize Rahane/Pujara/Vijay....those 3 have stepped up many times to save our asses when Kohli went MIA. Let us use this thread to appreciate Kohli rather than downplaying others. 

So you would select him for enland series now 

[shortbread]

Kohli is the Sub Continent's best batsman at the moment, no question about that.

 

For me he's up there with Steve Smith, two of the best in the world.

[Gollum]

Just now, King Tendulkar said:

So you would select him for enland series now 

Yes I will but Kohli needs to explain his treatment of Rahane this series first. 

[sensible-indian]

He indeed has.

 

Big time.

 

If only his captaincy was one tenth as good, he would have created history.

Edited January 26, 2018 by sensible-indian

[Austin 3:!6]

4 minutes ago, Gollum said:

He has been excellent this series but not yet in the SRT-Lara class. And no need to criticize Rahane/Pujara/Vijay....those 3 have stepped up many times to save our asses when Kohli went MIA. Let us use this thread to appreciate Kohli rather than downplaying others. 

Lara played 9 tests in SA and scored 2 centuries at an avg of 46

 

Kohli played 5 tests there and already have 2 centuries with an avg of 56

 

Kohli should sometime score runs in mars with 1 leg tied and blindfolds on. Only then he can be considered as a class batsman perhaps.

[Trichromatic]

15 minutes ago, Gollum said:

He has been excellent this series but not yet in the SRT-Lara class. And no need to criticize Rahane/Pujara/Vijay....those 3 have stepped up many times to save our asses when Kohli went MIA. Let us use this thread to appreciate Kohli rather than downplaying others. 

Which series has been better for SRT than this one?

 

This is as good as any of SRT's top performance on tough tracks overseas.

[sensible-indian]

36 minutes ago, speedheat said:

I have seen some duffers were criticizing kohlis batting in Australia series last year when he was struggling, overrating htb like pujara to moon, quality attack, hostile conditions and this man took his game to next level here, prior to this series he was averaging 70 in south Africa so he knows how to deal with tough conditions, Kudos to kohli for living up to expectations.

Revisionism at its best.

 

If not for Pujara, Kohli would have lost 2015 SL series, 2015 SA series and 2017 Aus series and had the infamous record of being the only Indian captain to lose 2 home series since the 90s.

Edited January 26, 2018 by sensible-indian

[shortbread]

Who is the better all rounder......Pandya or Bhuvi?!

[randomGuy]

1 hour ago, King Tendulkar said:

What ever happens . Rahane showed his class .

 

never will I doubt you again rahane 

 

need sunny on comm praising him 

Keep him only for overseas... 

[jusarrived]

I have always said hes got a near perfect technique , he should have no issues adapting to any conditions and was always as good as Dravid/Tendulkar technically . The people who criticise current batsmen when they struggle against spin/swing/bounce dont realise that its a lot more difficult for these days to adapt than 10-20 years back . The amount of T20s/ODIs played these days makes a big difference , a lot of bad habbits creeps into their batting technique which is not easy to undo that quickly , before they do the series is done . Another factor are flat pitches , when you play 95% of your matches on such pitches its extremely difficult to deal with extreme swing/spin/bounce in some random match . you simply need to be a little more patient with these guys .

 

if Virat can play swing/bounce/spin with ease these days , I would put him above the likes of Dravid/Tendulkar/Lara ..just for the simple reason that every one around him ( some very good players ) has not struggled to do that . 

 

[Jimmy Cliff]

37 minutes ago, speedheat said:

I have seen some duffers were criticizing kohlis batting in Australia series last year when he was struggling, overrating htb like pujara to moon, quality attack, hostile conditions and this man took his game to next level here, prior to this series he was averaging 70 in south Africa so he knows how to deal with tough conditions, Kudos to kohli for living up to expectations.

Well said. Now that he's done well in this series, I have changed my mind about Kohli's performance against Australia last year. He was excellent. In fact, I think he was quite brilliant in England 2014 as well. Similarly since Pujara and Rahul have failed in this series, I am going to revise my opinion about their performance against Australia last year. They were quite horrific on flat tracks. Kohli should have dropped them for Dhawan and Rohit and we'd have won 4-0.

[WC2011INDIA]

6 minutes ago, shortbread said:

Who is the better all rounder......Pandya or Bhuvi?!

bhuvi. Better temperament. 

[adi B]

Superb batsmanship skills displayed by kohli on this tough tour.he was class above everyone else from both sides ,only if we had a couple of practice matches before the first test,he would have done well in the cape town test as well