Rohit Sharma is a captaincy material, feels Virat Kohli

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Lucknow: He is the likely successor when Mahendra Singh Dhoni decides to relinquish national captaincy but India vice-captain Virat Kohli also named Mumbai batsman Rohit Sharma as a captaincy material. "He (Rohit) has tremendous cricketing brain. I often take his advice during matches," Virat let out a secret when asked as to who apart from him and Dhoni has the ability to lead the India team. For Kohli, captaincy is about taking responsibility and he is enjoys every bit of it. "I got a chance of being a captain in recently concluded Zimbabwe series. I like to be a captain and take responsibility," Kohli, who was here to attend a programme of TVS Motors as their brand ambassador, told reporters. Rohit Sharma is a captaincy material, feels Virat Kohli Captaincy is about taking responsibility and Rohit Sharma enjoys every bit of it, said Virat Kohli. "As a batsman, we focus on oursleves, but as a captain we have to look into every aspect. The responsibility increases manyfold as the captain," he added. On being asked about future plans Kohli said that he has never planned anything."I never plan anything and believe in consistancy. I can't tell what will happen in future," he said. The champion batsman said that upcoming series against South Africa was important and hoped that with new faces Indian team would give a good performmance. He said that time of batsmen from the big cities calling the shot in old times was over and now hardworking player, whether they were from the small city were knocking the door of Indian team. Expressing pleasure on being compared with former Australian captain Ricky Pointing Kohli said that many people have said that and it felt good being compared with such a tremendous player. On being aggressive on the field, Kohli said that he never gestured at anyone but he also indicated that he is trying to curb his aggression.

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[Number]

Correction ... "non-playing" captaincy material.

[adityac3688]

Rohit may have found his form again and all, but i don't think he is a captaincy material, He needs to become more consistent, When he comes at 50-60 he gets a bit confused or maybe tired and just gives his wicket up, He needs either more stamina or more powerful view, People call him a Maggie man is because of his poor performance in the past few matches.

[Bleed-Blue]

Let Him Captain Mumbai in Ranji First For a Whole Season....People Said Gambhir was Captaincy material After winning The IPL... Let Rohit Establish Himself As a Batmen For India In All Forms Before all These Captaincy Material Claims

[adityac3688]

Let Him Captain Mumbai in Ranji First For a Whole Season....People Said Gambhir was Captaincy material After winning The IPL... Let Rohit Establish Himself As a Batmen For India In All Forms Before all These Captaincy Material Claims

Would be a great idea! But Rohit Sharma still needs quite a bit experience by learning from Dhoni and maybe even Kohli's advice can come useful! I still don't find him a really successful player though, He needs more concentration and focus in the game.

[Tom Riddle]

No pleaseeee ..I just can't tolerate that guy in the team ..captaining a side in IPL and in international cricket are two entirety different things

[saneindian]

Why not. He did lead Mumbai to an elusive title win in IPL when many dubbed them as perennial chokers.

[vvvslaxman]

Kohli has definitely from Dravid's school when it comes to talking about his fellow players.

[maniac]

IPL winner and Advisor in the recent triumphs.....I was right again....Rohit for Captaincy And you know my choice for Bowling captain :--D

[adi B]

rat will show nohit a :finger: when the time comes

[Cricketics]

Kohli for Selector after retirment :)

[Deleted_User_1]

fecker needs to get selected consistently first....

[rkt.india]

why he is not sucking up to Rohit? :protest:

[Sean Bradley]

He is not a "stay in the team" material, captaincy :headshake:

[surajmal]

Probably tongue in cheek. Kohli can't hide emotions, so it would be awesome if some can post a video of the interview. I want see the expression on his face when he uttered these feelings.

[Haarkarjeetgaye]

sharma should be captain of Indian football team

[Debutant]

There were numerous threads in the IPL section how Nohit Sharma is a better captains than Virat Kohli. His fansboys even called me idiot and a lot of names just because I did not agree to them. Now they have got some more ammunition

[CG]

What i would take out of it is Good friendship between the two.