Not in agreement of deciding best Test side over one game: Virat Kohli

[R!TTER]

Agree with his point but it's farcical given his performances over the years in any KO, outside WT20. He should just shut his trap & look to win the test series vs Eng - anything less & he should resign - but we all know neither will happen 

[urbestfriend]

Well, three match is ideal but cant happen due to scheduling constraints. 3 test means minimum of 40 days considering travel and practice matches, and ICC has to block the international cricket scheduling for all teams which is not feasible.  

[nitinbwj]

Sour grapes for coward Kohli

[express bowling]

A solitary test match does not really work.

 

A 3 test series for WTC final is something I have always wanted.

 

 

[nevada]

Shut up and * off, Lolli! Screwed our chances right when he announced a squad without Thakur. Then left out Siraj. Then batted like the choker that he is. Now he whines. Can't admit that he got out-thought, out-smarted, out played. He just can't deliver when the pressure is on. Of late, he hasn't done any bilateral ODI century celebration high jumps either! When will his sponsors wake up and realize that this fellow is no longer of value?  Manhoos should retire pronto! And though I have soft corner for Pujara, I am sick and tired of him also! You can take it to the bank that he will be still batting on zero when you go away on an errand for a couple of hours and then come back to switch on the TV. He needs a break of a game or two at a minimum. Rahane the batsman is a disaster as well, but as captain he can still do a good job. But who is going to bell the cat! The choker kaptan who has undone all the hard work of a once in a generation display of gutsiness in the AUS series will continue till Indian cricket goes kaput. I am so fuming mad at the way things have gone in this match, well before the match began, in fact. What a fecking disaster! And Bumrah, GTFO and go back to practicing yorkers at Ambani's backyard. We went in to the match leaving out the clutchest, gutsiest players and included over the hill, mediocre, selfish fecks in their place. We deserved to lose and bigly. 

[Trichromatic]

So instead of playing practice matches, he wants at least 1 test of final to be practice match.

[Trichromatic]

Pretty sure he was the guy always crying for "try ball" in gully cricket.

 

Exact same attitude on display.

[R!TTER]

1 minute ago, Trichromatic said:

he wants at least 1 test of final to be practice match.

It is Kohli afterall, what did you expect? Next he'll say I don't agree with the single coin toss, since I lose everyone of them, make it best of 3 

[rollingstoned]

It doesn't matter if they decided the winner based on a 3 test final or they summarily awarded it to the one with the most points in a 2 year cycle, he will still contrive to fall at the last step the minute something is on the line. I don't have much hope that the team will win anything under Kohli at any major tourney.

[Norman]

What a loser mentality! 

 

Even if we play a final against freakin SAF or WI on a square turner in Dhaka or Colombo, we'll end up losing it under this phattu clown. 

[raki05]

7 hours ago, Gollum said:

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Virat Kohli added his voice to the chorus of calls asking for future World Test Championships to be multi-game affairs. The India captain echoed thoughts of his head coach Ravi Shastri and former skipper Sachin Tendulkar after his side were defeat in the inaugural final of this format. It was India's second loss in a major tournament final under Kohli but he clarified that his opinion was not based on the outcome but that a one-off game to decide the best team from a tournament played over a two-year phase was not and may not give an authentic portrayal of the character of the two finalist teams or allow a narrative to build over the series.

 

"Well, look, firstly, I'm not in absolute agreement of deciding the best Test side in the world over the course of one game, to be very honest," Kohli said. "If it is a Test series, it has to be a test of character over three Tests, which team has the ability to come back into the series or totally blow away the other team. It can't just be a pressure applied over two days of good cricket and then you suddenly are not a good Test side anymore. I don't believe in that."

 

India finished the protracted league stage of the tournament as table toppers with 520 points across six series, five of which they won. Incidentally, two of their recent series wins, against Australia and England, were achieved after going a game down. Kohli reasoned that a series allowed narratives to ebb and flow, for teams to come back or double down on their advantage to establish superiority.

 

"I just believe that it[final] should be done over the course of three matches so that you as a side prepare accordingly and you have a chance to, as I said, either drive home the advantage or really test the other team out if you haven't had a good first game.

 

"I think it has to be a hard grind and something that definitely needs to be worked on in the future to really -- at the end of three matches, there's effort, there's ups and downs, there's situations changing throughout the course of the series, a chance to rectify the things that you've done wrong in the first game and then really see who's the better side over the course of a three-match series or something will be a good measure of how things really are, so we are not too bothered by this result because we understand, as I said, as a Test side what we've done over the last three, four years, not just over the last 18 months but over the last three, four years. So this is not a measure of who we are as a team and the ability and the potential we have had for so many years now."

 

Kohli referenced the quality of the rain-affected game in Southampton to questions about the appetite levels for a three-match final amidst other bilateral commitments. "I mean, if you saw the way the game went with whatever time we got on the field, as well, why wouldn't you want to see two more Tests of the same teams battling it out and eventually being the winners of the World Test Championship? I think historically all the great series that you've seen in Test cricket, you remember them over a period of three matches or five matches perhaps, but two teams going against each other and those series become memorable.

"I think this definitely has to be brought in. I'm not saying this because we're not on the winning side, but just for Test cricket and for this saga to be absolutely memorable, I think it has to happen over a period of three games minimum so that you have a series to remember because there are going to be ups and downs through and through with two quality sides going at each other knowing that there's so much on the line."

 

Incidentally, the ICC, which has announced a single-match Test Championship final until the end of the 2024-31 cycle, has already acknowledged the merits of a series but said it wasn't logistically feasible. "The reality of the international cricket schedule is we are just not going to have [a situation where] blocking out a month or so for all the teams in the tournament for the final is realistic," said ICC's acting CEO Geoff Allardice. "That's why the one-match final was decided upon. Why it is quite exciting is because it brings something new. Here we are - we've got a one-off Test match to decide the best team in the world over this two-year cycle."

 

Winning captain Kane Williamson offered a contrarian view to Kohli and Shastri, talking up the 'unique' and 'fickle' dynamics of a one-off final. "I suppose the exciting part of finals is that anything can happen," he said. ""We know how fickle cricket is and we've seen it in other competitions, in other World Cups and in all other bits and pieces. The one-off factor does bring a unique dynamic, which does make it exciting and all these sorts of things, and on any given day anything can happen. We've been on all different sides of that statement.

 

"I suppose there's arguments for both sides, and I guess the challenge would be scheduling and that series amongst a lot of cricket that's already on, but no doubt the more cricket that you have perhaps within a series, the more you do find out and the more it does reveal itself, but in the same way it was a really exciting match. The first time that there's been this competition on and both teams were fully geared for the game, and it was a brilliant game of cricket."

Glad that it was one game. Otherwise with Kohli in helm it would have been 2-0 or 3-0 in such conditions,and that would have been epic disaster.

[Sandeep99]

Just moronic and what a pity that none of the ex players say a word about this ineptitude! Indian cricket is suffocating because of this guy. Can we at least change the captain in test matches please? It's so insulting that a nation of 1 billion population produce such shabby results when you consider this is the only sport we actually play.

[Gollum]

3 hours ago, rkt.india said:

So NZ got how many points for one game?

I think 2 pts, and we lost 2. 

[dilliboy]

Haan bhai.. All wx finals should also be best of 3 by your logic.. Think Kohli forget this was a one off match,thus going on to lose his customary opening match 

[Suhaan]

Why he's bothered?

 

It was just another match

 

[Frustrated]

Dear Loli, Do u ever realise that the team has had hattrick of icc tournaments losses under your captaincy?  (In a span of just 4 years, and is still counting)   Will u ever win any icc event in your tenure?     If not, plz resign.  

[LordPrabhzy]

Randi rona and excuses out already...

 

This is what going to happen when they lose 5-0 to England:

 

" Oh we didn't have any tour practice games for 5 weeks"

" Oh Covid disruptions and quarantines has had a mental affect on the players"

"Oh we didn't manage to do enough sightseeing to relax our minds"

 

Just eff offf- you knew the format of the WTC and its final- so you knew it was a do or die game. when you already decided before the match in a PC to say that oh one bad game doesn't make us a bad team, you are showing yourself as a defeatist cuck pussio who is more interested in family planning and endorsements.

[EnterTheVoid]

OK, so let's also have 50 over world cup as best of 3.

 

And 20 over world cup as best of 3.

 

Cos, you know. Might have an off day. And need multiple chances to come good. 

 

The whole point of the effing cup is to deliver at the moment that matters.

 

You can be great for 4 years and still suck on the day. 

Edited June 24, 2021 by EnterTheVoid

[goose]

He has a point, but my god what awful timing. Let the winners have their moment.

[Nikola]

Would he ask nz to play 2 more test if india would have won this trophy? If anything his captaincy will get more exposed in 3 match series final.

Edited June 24, 2021 by Nikola