nevada Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Kohli has now gone 50 innings in international cricket without scoring a century. The last time he went past the three-figure mark was way back in 2019 in the day-night Test match against Bangladesh in Kolkata. In the ongoing Test series in England, Kohli has managed just 69 runs in four innings with a best of 42, falling to caught behind dismissals (caught by wicketkeeper or in the slips) in the four times he has been dismissed so far in the series. Finally, an article calling out his lack of runs. It's always Pujara and Rahane whose failure is highlighted. Vijy, Mosher, sscomp32 and 6 others 2 1 6 Link to comment
ShoonyaSifar Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Take out the 100s vs WI and BD and the number will look even more stark. He has not been the same batsman after being thoroughly eclipsed by Rohit in the 2019 WC. In frustration he decided to play each and every match even vs weak WI and BD but got exposed thereafter in NZ, Aus and now England. In between, he went for tailor-made wickets vs England at home to somehow win and get into WTC finals. Must be regretting not getting proper batting wickets whee he could have scored some runs at home. sorak, SK_IH, sage and 6 others 9 Link to comment
Lone Wolf Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Don't care now... It would be an achievement if he crosses 50 even. Finished limited batsman. nevada and raki05 2 Link to comment
Popular Post Mariyam Posted August 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2021 With Sachin it was about scoring a hundred centuries. With Kohli its going to be about going a hundred games w/o scoring a century. raki05, sarchasm, nevada and 8 others 6 5 Link to comment
nevada Posted August 26, 2021 Author Share Posted August 26, 2021 1 minute ago, Mariyam said: With Sachin it was about scoring a hundred centuries. With Kohli its going to be about going a hundred games w/o scoring a century. He should have raised his bat yesterday after getting out. A 50 is a 50, even if it is ignominious. Link to comment
Popular Post SK_IH Posted August 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2021 19 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said: Take out the 100s vs WI and BD and the number will look even more stark. He has not been the same batsman after being thoroughly eclipsed by Rohit in the 2019 WC. In frustration he decided to play each and every match even vs weak WI and BD but got exposed thereafter in NZ, Aus and now England. In between, he went for tailor-made wickets vs England at home to somehow win and get into WTC finals. Must be regretting not getting proper batting wickets whee he could have scored some runs at home. Well said. Loli has reduced himself to a caricature, getting owned by Anderson & taking revenge against Kesrick Williams rollingstoned, ShoonyaSifar, adi B and 8 others 10 1 Link to comment
Gollum Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 (edited) Before that he was making merry against minnows like Bangladesh, Lanka and Kesrick Williams. Even 2019 wasn't good for him, many ICFers felt he did well in the WC, no he didn't. Lacked the drive even there, was more into PR...like Smith booing incident, giving himself out against Amir when ball missed his bat by 3 feet and umpire himself looking uninterested. His peak phase ended after 1st 4 tests of previous Eng tour. Then acceptable till 2019 home season (RSA, BD), worse than a tailender after that. Edited August 26, 2021 by Gollum Norman, Laaloo, nevada and 5 others 8 Link to comment
Popular Post Gollum Posted August 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2021 Now despite his useless run a ball 30s, his place in our T20 side is fixed. Guy is threatened by the likes of SKY, Kishan, Shaw. So doing politics to cement his spot and frustrate these prospects. Passenger in ODIs, deadweight in tests. And an annoying permanent mole in our T20 side, will no doubt be solely responsible for the WC failure later this year. Not even getting to his captaincy part and panauti factor. ShoonyaSifar, Vijy, Laaloo and 10 others 2 11 Link to comment
ShoonyaSifar Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 His PR gangs will now try their very best to ensure they can somehow get him to win the IPL so that they can do the song and dance about how great a leader he is. If even that doesn't;t happen, that will be a signal of him finally giving up captaincy. RAZPOR, raki05, sorak and 2 others 5 Link to comment
SK_IH Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said: His PR gangs will now try their very best to ensure they can somehow get him to win the IPL so that they can do the song and dance about how great a leader he is. If even that doesn't;t happen, that will be a signal of him finally giving up captaincy. Bhai iss bande ne kuch nahi jeetna, CSK/MI/DC all three will win against RCB when it matters But he will still be around, sucking life out of Indian cricket nevada and raki05 2 Link to comment
AuxiliA Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Tendulkar was an utterly selfish cricketer. His greed and lust for scoring runs in all countries has no equal. He never even cared to abuse the opposition batsmen when his bowlers got them out. He was so full of himself. Kohli on the other hand is a Big Hearted man. Celebrates other players' successes as if it were his own. Always shares the burden of credit. Always supports his bowlers when they are abusing the opposition. Who gives a damn about those selfish centuries? Norman, Andy, kohli and 9 others 1 9 2 Link to comment
kubrickian Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Kohli is a class act. Every batsman goes through poor form and yes, in this case, its been a bit extended. But he has the game and if he can really work on a few issues, no reason why he wont be back amongst the runs. Even in a couple of innings in this series, he looked like he would make a big score but credit to Anderson to get him out who is quite a handful in home conditions. Link to comment
nevada Posted August 26, 2021 Author Share Posted August 26, 2021 3 minutes ago, kubrickian said: Kohli is a class act. Every batsman goes through poor form and yes, in this case, its been a bit extended. But he has the game and if he can really work on a few issues, no reason why he wont be back amongst the runs. Even in a couple of innings in this series, he looked like he would make a big score but credit to Anderson to get him out who is quite a handful in home conditions. This might very well be true but Kohli deserves to be dropped as a batsman. Let him drop out, work out his faults, score some runs for Delhi in Ranji and then come back. He is not deserving of a test team place right now. Vijy and raki05 1 1 Link to comment
Vancouver Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 He will be 33 in 2 months, he is not going to improve from here onwards. He is done, his last 4 years will be just like Ricky Ponting's and Sehwag's before retirement. Not everyone can adapt with age like Sachin did. nevada, raki05, RAZPOR and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Popular Post New guy Posted August 26, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2021 (edited) 39 minutes ago, kubrickian said: Kohli is a class act. Every batsman goes through poor form and yes, in this case, its been a bit extended. But he has the game and if he can really work on a few issues, no reason why he wont be back amongst the runs. Even in a couple of innings in this series, he looked like he would make a big score but credit to Anderson to get him out who is quite a handful in home conditions. Numbers tell you that good batsmen dont have such extended poor form. And he doest even have the tennis elbow excuse Below from a reddit user I did a small analysis of '20 innings rolling average' for a few batsmen (takes me time so will add others later) - lets call it "TIRAvg" Sachin: Apart from his terminal decline towards the end, the lowest 20 Innings rolling average he saw was 29, in his injury-stricken mid 2000s period. Apart from that he always managed 20 innings rolling averages of 37 or more Dravid: Dravid had a long period of decline in form after the Ahmedabad test where India got out for 76, and he reached a TIRAvg of 25 then. Apart from that one phase where it reached 30. Kohli: Is currently at his lowest ever TIRAvg of 21. This is significantly lower than Sachin/Dravid ever reached in their full career. So these are alarm bells indeed. Rahane: Has gone below TIRAvg of 25 a couple of times in the recent past and is clearly a hot and cold type of performer. Smith is the God here. I am yet to check what Root, Kane and Babar look like, but once Smith breached the TIRAvg of 50, he has not once dropped below it. It is insane how good he is. Edited August 26, 2021 by New guy Norman, sorak, raki05 and 10 others 7 6 Link to comment
Norman Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 India will win an ICC trophy before Kohli will score his 71st ton. Now go on and comprehend that what ever way you like. Link to comment
jf1gp_1 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 High time he took lessons from vikrant gupta raki05, adi B and Rasgulla 3 Link to comment
Forever Indian Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Mariyam said: With Sachin it was about scoring a hundred centuries. With Kohli its going to be about going a hundred games w/o scoring a century. Kohli PR gang incoming with arranging a home series with SL/Bangla soon... figo6762 1 Link to comment
Vijy Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 12 hours ago, New guy said: Numbers tell you that good batsmen dont have such extended poor form. And he doest even have the tennis elbow excuse Below from a reddit user I did a small analysis of '20 innings rolling average' for a few batsmen (takes me time so will add others later) - lets call it "TIRAvg" Sachin: Apart from his terminal decline towards the end, the lowest 20 Innings rolling average he saw was 29, in his injury-stricken mid 2000s period. Apart from that he always managed 20 innings rolling averages of 37 or more Dravid: Dravid had a long period of decline in form after the Ahmedabad test where India got out for 76, and he reached a TIRAvg of 25 then. Apart from that one phase where it reached 30. Kohli: Is currently at his lowest ever TIRAvg of 21. This is significantly lower than Sachin/Dravid ever reached in their full career. So these are alarm bells indeed. Rahane: Has gone below TIRAvg of 25 a couple of times in the recent past and is clearly a hot and cold type of performer. Smith is the God here. I am yet to check what Root, Kane and Babar look like, but once Smith breached the TIRAvg of 50, he has not once dropped below it. It is insane how good he is. yes, stewie (smith) is god. no doubt about that IMO. And yes the slump of Rat is far more severe than that of SRT and Dravid. Link to comment
Vijy Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 14 hours ago, Gollum said: Now despite his useless run a ball 30s, his place in our T20 side is fixed. Guy is threatened by the likes of SKY, Kishan, Shaw. So doing politics to cement his spot and frustrate these prospects. Passenger in ODIs, deadweight in tests. And an annoying permanent mole in our T20 side, will no doubt be solely responsible for the WC failure later this year. Not even getting to his captaincy part and panauti factor. 14 hours ago, Gollum said: Before that he was making merry against minnows like Bangladesh, Lanka and Kesrick Williams. Even 2019 wasn't good for him, many ICFers felt he did well in the WC, no he didn't. Lacked the drive even there, was more into PR...like Smith booing incident, giving himself out against Amir when ball missed his bat by 3 feet and umpire himself looking uninterested. His peak phase ended after 1st 4 tests of previous Eng tour. Then acceptable till 2019 home season (RSA, BD), worse than a tailender after that. agreed with all of the above. he has been pathetic since 2019. I am just waiting to see his avg drop below 50 because there's no way he deserves to be anywhere near SRT, Gavaskar, and Dravid. In fact, he should be lower than VVS, Sehwag, Merchant, Hazare, and so on. Link to comment
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