Do Kohli's weird moves have some ulterior political motives?

[Vilander]

19 hours ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

 

After 5 years of Kohli as captain, it’s safe to say he’s mostly a clueless captain who relies mostly on individual brilliance and lacks the strategic nouns

Not being picky but its a well written post but for the spello there nous not nouns you could edit it.

[Vilander]

1 hour ago, FischerTal said:

I dont even know what that means but I'm pretty sure its bashing Kohli.. 

Its colloquial way to explain, there is nothing that intelligent in his scene he is just plain stupid.

[Lannister]

23 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

As much as we think Kohli likes Thakur, he always used Thakur at the worst possible time. Opening the bowling with him, bringing him on when batsmen are set.

Isn't Thakur a specialist bowler? What's his role in the team then if he can't bowl to a set batsman? 

 

23 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Not playing Pant for 7 matches. It is definitely weird. No chance even in dead rubber match. He thought it was a great idea to give practice to Agarwal and Shaw ahead of Test series. But didn't think about giving practice to his backup wicket keeper.

Pant is not an opener to bat him at 1-2. 

[Vijy]

1 minute ago, Lannister said:

Isn't Thakur a specialist bowler? What's his role in the team then if he can't bowl to a set batsman? 

 

Pant is not an opener to bat him at 1-2. 

he is our greatest all-rounder, beating Mankad and Kapil as per Rat.

[Lannister]

1 minute ago, Vijy said:

he is our greatest all-rounder, beating Mankad and Kapil as per Rat.

It's obvious he is there (Mumbai quota) because of Shastri. Kohli just can't say no to his massage therapist. 

[Cricwala]

On 2/13/2020 at 11:06 PM, sarchasm said:

Good post. He does have his favorites for whom he'd go the extra length to accommodate them in the team. But he's no Dhoni - the true Machiavelli.

I don't think Dhoni did anything overtly Machiavellian, like keep some talented player out or play some duds repeatedly - calling up a fat and unfit RP Singh in 2011 Eng tour was his worst buddy call, but even he was dropped in next series. Where Dhoni effed us up was he stopped giving a f**k for tests after 2011 WC because he realised he could rule Indian cricket with minimal effort. He became this listless, go-thru-the-motions test captain and even his LOI captaincy became more conservative but atleast he retained the winning drive for LOIs. Where Kohli is different is that he has that winning drive for all formats (atleast till now), but his captaincy is turning out to be as pedestrian as Dhoni 2.0, with far more personal biases.

[sandeep]

On 2/13/2020 at 12:17 PM, sandeep said:

 

• Kuptaan Wrogn is an extreme fundamentalist believer in the gospel truth of 'seniority'.  Always has been.  When in doubt, the senior player will always get the benefit of doubt ahead of the young rookie.  Whether that's for selection, or for turning to a full-time bowler ahead of a part-timer.  Its very easy to predict what he will go for, almost always.
• His captaincy is like his batting - he likes to manage and minimize risk, and maintain control.  He is all-in on the concept of the top 3 batsmen in the batting unit being the "heroes", and the middle order are "supporting characters".  And consequently, there is a unspoken but unsubtle class system in the Indian batting unit.  The supporting characters are constantly given the dirty job of 'speeding up the team runrate' as soon as they get to the crease, or worse, rebuild after the heroes fail, and still get blamed.  Just a couple of 'failures' in games where Kuptaan wanted to win, and you fail, and you will find yourself out of the team quicker than you can say Ambaatli.