Kohli dont even deserve a place in the team as a batsman, let alone captain

[Austin 3:!6]

We all like to blame Rahane and Pujara and rightly so but somehow king Kohli escapes criticism. His form is equally poor if not worse. But even the journalists dont dare to question the batting form (or lack of it) of Kohli.

 

Both the shots he played to got out on this test match were tailender'isque chasing 5th stump line. Not sure how long public, board or selectors gonna tolerate before asking questions.

 

He is just blocking a place for potential inform younger players like Shreyas Iyer at no.4

[LordPrabhzy]

The middle order trimurti doesnt deserve to be there- he wants to keep up his brand value with adverts and sponsorships which will only be worth a lot till he is India captain. This is all for his personal gain and not for the best interests of the Indian team. Selfish prick

[wanted_desi]

Thats why he keeps Rahane and Pujara around. 

[goose]

Kohli's issues are mental at this point. he will be ok

[sensible-indian]

3 minutes ago, goose said:

Kohli's issues are mental at this point. he will be ok

Pujaras and Rahanes issues are also mental.

 

They will be fine too.

 

[LordPrabhzy]

Just now, Banton said:

King kohli will score double century in next match.

Chal bhag bc

[Austin 3:!6]

5 minutes ago, goose said:

Kohli's issues are mental at this point. he will be ok

Bhai its a glaring technical issue...nothing mental in it. Being unsure where your off stump is not mental issue.

[goose]

6 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Bhai its a glaring technical issue...nothing mental in it. Being unsure where your off stump is not mental issue.

 

 

we shall see. i want him batting for india.

[goose]

10 minutes ago, sarchasm said:

 

''We shall see'', says the guy who missed his shitshow for past 2 plus years.

 

anyone can react to a poor/good performance. the trick is knowing when to back the guy having a poor run and when to get rid of the one hit wonder. my record trumps most

Edited December 29, 2021 by goose

[Chakdephatte]

Dravid is too good to play Chapell here. Difficult to drop him as long as the team is winning.

[Austin 3:!6]

2 minutes ago, Chakdephatte said:

Dravid is too good to play Chapell here. Difficult to drop him as long as the team is winning.

No one has the guts to drop him but he should proactively sit out on the Bangladesh series. Imagine getting humiliated by Mehidy Hassan and Taskin Ahmed's of the world.

 

We should play a young team for that series:

 

Rohit

Mayank

KL (c)

Gill (vc)

Iyer

Pant (wk)

Jadeja

Ashwin

Shami

Bumrah

Siraj

 

[Chakdephatte]

6 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

No one has the guts to drop him but he should proactively sit out on the Bangladesh series. Imagine getting humiliated by Mehidy Hassan and Taskin Ahmed's of the world.

 

We should play a young team for that series:

 

Rohit

Mayank

KL (c)

Gill (vc)

Iyer

Pant (wk)

Jadeja

Ashwin

Shami

Bumrah

Siraj

Should rest Shami and one of Ash-Jaddu to give chance to Axar and an additional pacer.

[WC2011INDIA]

Rahane scoring more runs than him in test matches is just depressing. Worse, hahane doesn't score much.

[Something]

Kohli will have a dead cat bounce phase. I've been saying this for couple of years now. At that point, everyone will say "King is back". Almost all "one foot out" players have a series or two of legacy phase. The question is, do you drop him before or after such phase? Does he leave on a good note at that point? Its just silly to let a player add 5-6 years to their career post prime in a country like India. 

[Something]

This whole "captaincy" thing has been given too much importance lately. Focus on the team and they'll win regardless of the Captain. I don't know that consistency and retention of the same captain for many years actually helps the outcome. Is there reasonable data on this? Didn't Hahane as a captain pull a rabbit out of the hat in Australia during a very short stint? If having the same captain for 5-6 years at a time was important, we would have collapsed in Australia but we didn't. 

 

It should always be about putting up the best team of players instead of trying to retain an out-of-form captain. 

[DeepSpace]

India's ascendancy in test cricket is mostly through bowling. The batting still sucks.

[raki05]

4 hours ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Bhai its a glaring technical issue...nothing mental in it. Being unsure where your off stump is not mental issue.

May be he is a mental.

[Adamant]

If he averages less than 35 in this series then yes his days should be numbered. 

[speed_thrills]

44 minutes ago, Adamant said:

If he averages less than 35 in this series then yes his days should be numbered. 

What a fall for Kohli when even his die hard fans expect/pray to average atleast a freaking 35 lol

[vvvslaxman]

He had 3 great years. But he should try to understand why he is repeatedly getting out the same way again and again and work on it. He has to do a Tendulkar here. That famous 241 not out where he cut out off side shots.  I am not sure if he has enough time to do that in result-oriented Test matches we have these days.  May be he should bite the bullet and play some first class cricket and see if he can make a 100 there.