Do people dislike Kohli mostly because of his personality ?

[Number]

It seems many people dislike Kohli not because of his performance but his antics off and on the field.

 

Personally for me, while his habit of always trying to be center of attention, borderline narcissism and his wife trying to hog limelight from Cricket does irritate me but I haven't found them anything excessively intolerable.

I understand that as long as he is not breaching any code of conduct on field, he should be free to express himself. He is free to take up social causes he believes in and can put up his opinion on social media even if you disagree with him. His wife is in showbiz and as long as it is not affecting his game, she can draw some footage of cricket to keep her career on wheels.

 

Overall my dislike for him is only because of his handling of some of the young players, his poor captaincy and his habit of going missing in all important games.

 

Do you feel Kohli's personality affects his game, captaincy and impacts team's performance and your distastefulness for him grows because of this ?

 

Edited June 28, 2021 by Number

[ShoonyaSifar]

Multiple factors

1. ZERO grooming of youngsters, putting them on the chopping block at the first available opportunity

2. Irritating preferences for seniors over youngsters

3. Complete lack of tactical nous, so many terrible mistakes which have a similar pattern

4. Much better captaincy options in the team

5. Preference to work with yesmen in support staff instead of professionals (Sridhar over Jonty )

6. Content with wins at home and in WI and SL. ZERO thinking about winning in SENA. Losses in SENA are brushed off like low priority events

7. Acting and behaving like both a dictator and a clown on the field

 

People started to turn against him since 2019 when the WC selection was messed up. The floodgates have opened since then as he has been repeatedly exposed as a captain against better teams 

 

 

 

Edited June 28, 2021 by ShoonyaSifar

[Trichromatic]

While Kohli's behavior is within the limits of "ICC code of conduct", his behavior doesn't fall within "spirit of requirements of Indian cricket"

[raki05]

He hasn't won a single ICC tournament under his captaincy. We used to like his antics till the time his performance back it up but now it all looks antics.

[maniac]

I find his posing for the cameras and random dancing in the middle of the game or over the top fist bump and expressions feel  too forced and annoying. I mean sure if he does a Bhangra after winning a crucial game don’t think it will feel weird.

 

I felt the same way about Dhoni’s “cool” act towards the end. Yes Dhoni is a calm guy by nature and has been blessed with ice calm temperament but felt he was overdoing it and felt forceful towards the end.

 

You can just tell. Even with some of the more charismatic WI cricketers you can tell when there is a genuine emotion or when they are trying to force a mannerism/celebration kind of like Dhawan thigh slap or Hassan Ali suicide bomb celebration.

[beetle]

1 hour ago, Number said:

 

Overall my dislike for him is only because of his handling of some of the young players, his poor captaincy and his habit of going missing in all important games.

This ,plus his responses to icc tournsment losses.

His behaving like a prick after losing to padosis and his making excuses for possible loss before WTC.

[prudent_kreeda]

The coterie of Virat -Ravi  go missing when things go wrong and we lose important match/series . They have some excuses ready  like belief in process over results, need 3 match than 1 to decide the best .  Bhai. if you are no.1 , why whine about 1 match . Show your ability rather than getting out in less than 2.5 sessions .  But if they win all credit for them and their chamchas . Even Sridhar has great stories to tell !

Basically  VK is treating Indian cricket his fiefdom . Does not want selectors , coach who question him.  That is why surrounded  by some Yes men both in support staff & some in the team XI.  Personal interest overrides team interest .

  Whole team of Captain & Coach - do not seem to have a clear long term vision to make  India no.1, whatever is done is too slow and comes in tit bits .

 

Consider some facts :- 

1. No change in approach to T20 & 50 overs batting . We are taking baby steps now almost 4 years after it was evident . The main reason is the insecurity of top 3 , if they get out by going for shots early their place may be in danger .

2.  Never missed any bi-laterals  when it was not needed. A true captain would be one who gives chances to fringe players and makes them match ready.

3.  No change in batting order in top 3. - Now its almost 8 years . Never thought of giving chances to others at the top based on match situations 4.  No eye for talent and consistent support - Cannot think of any one specially picked out by him and made them great .  In fact he must take blame for stunting growth of talents .

5.  Many youngster has to bear the brunt as he prefers his selected buddies in spite of consistent poor performances by them . Hence there is no back up created who have played matches & are match ready.  

[Suhaan]

1 hour ago, beetle said:

plus his responses to icc tournsment losses.

Now he has gone one step forward in shamelessness or one can term it as meek surrender before an actual contest

 

[Sandeep99]

He is a narcissist. I feel he does things just to show off rather than genuinely believe them. His friendship act with Williamson/ABD I feel is staged and made for PR. I guess his wife and her bollywood mentors train him.

 

Absolute failure as a captain - unable to win a single trophy is what can be described as the weakest era of international cricket. Messes up everything right from team selection and is not team focused.

 

Failure as a batsman when there's pressure - can't remember a single good innings when the team was really under pressure. His dismissal in the 2nd innings of WTC final sums up his career. All talk no performance.

 

What's there to like about this absolute joke of a clown? 

 

[raki05]

And i am quite surprise people loud reaching sf as achievement. We reached sf in our weakest era as well when we were not even top 5-6. In modern era where India is one of the top team and where some of the team has declined considerably compare to earlier like sa,aus,wi , pak, SL ,ZIM i dont think reaching a final or sf as achievement. At present only aus,eng,ind and nz are strong team though aus is nowhere what it was earlier So how can reaching a sf is boasted so much in a 4 team contest in your strongest era.

[Ajju]

His Brotherhood relationship and acts with ABD williamson amir afridi

[maniac]

6 minutes ago, Ajju said:

His Brotherhood relationship and acts with ABD williamson amir afridi

many years back I went to see Batman Begins in Prasad’s IMAX in Hyderabad. A famous current telugu super star from a famous telugu family came to watch it along with his friends. I was sitting right behind them.  Few of those friends  were recognizable faces as well. They are actors who do small roles like hero’s friends, villains chamcha or act as leads themselves in small budget movies.

 

This  star dropped his mobile phone in his seat somewhere and all of a sudden all these chamchas were literally searching for it like their life savings were stolen.

 

Something tells me their concern  was not out of love.

 

I feel the same way when foreign players including Pakistani cricketers  reciprocate their love for Kohli. 

[zen]

Winning & losing are a part of the game. Anyone saying we have not won this or that may not understand sports. 
 

What I want is Ind to at least get the strategy and tactics right. To me, it appears as if he thinks of picking bowlers as creating a buffet for him where bowlers are lined on a table. In creating options for him, he dilutes the strength of say pace bowlers in pace bowling conditions, showing that he is probably not making an effort to take calls based on conditions. He wants to have options as he is probably not sure what will happen wrt conditions during a game. 
 

If we look at various tournaments:

 

2017 CT Played an extra spinner v Pak in the final

2019 WC the middle order was unsettled and undercooked. Made no effort to play some of the guys up the order to remain in form (even in bilaterals)

2021 WTC Played two spinners in pace friendly conditions 

Edited June 28, 2021 by zen

[mishra]

 At peak of his career and on back of superb team,  he allways gave impression that he doesn’t care, trophies can be won easily. Only now, seems like he has got a desire, but lacks cricketing acumen. He has broken the team and looks like he is leading 10 individuals who all are playing under him for sake of playing

[Jay]

6 hours ago, zen said:

Winning & losing are a part of the game. Anyone saying we have not won this or that may not understand sports. 
 

What I want is Ind to at least get the strategy and tactics right. To me, it appears as if he thinks of picking bowlers as creating a buffet for him where bowlers are lined on a table. In creating options for him, he dilutes the strength of say pace bowlers in pace bowling conditions, showing that he is probably not making an effort to take calls based on conditions. He wants to have options as he is probably not sure what will happen wrt conditions during a game. 
 

If we look at various tournaments:

 

2017 CT Played an extra spinner v Pak in the final

2019 WC the middle order was unsettled and undercooked. Made no effort to play some of the guys up the order to remain in form (even in bilaterals)

2021 WTC Played two spinners in pace friendly conditions 

All dudberhead had to do in WTc was pick this team;

 

Pujara

Rohit

Gill

Kuli

Rahane

Pant

Sundar

Shardul

Siraj

Bumrah

Shami

 

This team would beat Kiwis. But Punjabi in general cant think outside the box unfortunately. I myself am half Punjabi and I know this is generally true. They are not innovative thinkers. Obviously there are exceptions. 

[Jay]

7 hours ago, maniac said:

many years back I went to see Batman Begins in Prasad’s IMAX in Hyderabad. A famous current telugu super star from a famous telugu family came to watch it along with his friends. I was sitting right behind them.  Few of those friends  were recognizable faces as well. They are actors who do small roles like hero’s friends, villains chamcha or act as leads themselves in small budget movies.

 

This  star dropped his mobile phone in his seat somewhere and all of a sudden all these chamchas were literally searching for it like their life savings were stolen.

 

Something tells me their concern  was not out of love.

 

I feel the same way when foreign players including Pakistani cricketers  reciprocate their love for Kohli. 

Rofl. This made me laugh so hard that I almost forgot I was in public. People around me started laughing cause I cracked up. 

[Khota]

Needs to win something.

[nevada]

Must frustrating selections and non selections, constant chopping and changing, keeping everyone in the team insecure, nasty sledging against Indian players in the IPL but buttering up Gora players, arrogant personality - he is the complete package. 

[RajBan]

Along with all the apt points highlighted by posters here , one more reason I completely dislike him is because he is a fake person.  He does not mean what he says, his actions are opposite to his statements and everything is about himself and his fake ideas.

 

 

Edited June 29, 2021 by RajBan

[R!TTER]

1 hour ago, RajBan said:

because he is a fake person.

Yup, unless BCCI is forcing him to be goody two shoes to thy neighbors or anyone else he should drop the act