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Kohli has gone 50 innings wihtout a century!


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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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

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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? 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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