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Rate Virat Kohli's impact in Test cricket as a batter

How would you rate Virat Kohli as an overall Test batter based on his performances up to this point?

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If Virat Kohli wants to solidify his legacy as a Test cricket legend, he should consider stepping away from white-ball formats entirely after the ICC Champions Trophy. He could play two months of IPL and dedicate the remaining 10 months to Test cricket. This approach might be the key to regaining his best form, as T20 cricket has highlighted some technical weaknesses in his game.
 
He's destroyed his legacy in the last 4 years and especially this current Australian series. How can you amateurishly keep getting out the same way habitually to the point your body language shows a complete lack of confidence and you can't help your technical fetish of fishing outside the offstump. This is not what a FAB 4 batsman does.
 
Undoubtedly, time is the greatest leveler & the one opposition that no player can ever master. This is the reason why respecting the sport is so crucial & important.

I have nothing against Kohli, he's a good player & also has helped modernize the cricket of his country in terms of mentality but seeing him struggle so badly now I wish that he retires from test cricket or at least take an elongated break. I know there's an inner voice somewhere in his head that he can reverse all of this & he may well manage to eke out a few good performances from within but our memories work in snapshots instead of films & the current gen that has grown up idolizing him is saving all the wrong snapshots in their head at the moment. His true impact will last generations, that's what will seep into every young cricketer from India, that dogged fighting spirit, that sometimes over the line aggression, the petulant brattish energy that annoys the opposition & also the team mates at times.

Most people will think that he's clinging on because of sponsorship deals & it may have some truth to it but it's more likely Kohlis wish to go out on a high instead of a low. Honestly when a player that we grew up watching retires, a part of us dies too.

Personally, I can never forget the retirement of Akram. It was the lowest of lows & he didn't even get to bowl in his farewell match because of persistent rain. The 2003 worldcup for that reason was so tragic, seeing a great player who was my childhood hero retire in such a damp manner. I always felt that Akram could play a couple more years, heck he was bowling almost 140s even at the time when he called it a day. But he didn't & that is how life is & we should just move on.

Kohli on his day in his prime was a bonafide superstar & that is how I want to remember him. Someone who as an opponent you were afraid of but also had respect for. Not a washed up has been who is seen as a selfish bloke that's blocking a spot for a young up & coming talent. As I said above, his true impact will last generations & for the sake of that, he should take a break from test cricket. Go on your own terms, leave at a time when people still wonder that maybe if he spent another few months or played in that particular ground he would have scored a century or won us the game.

I hope he hears the distant voice calling his name, accepts his fate, & walks into the sunset with grace, dignity, & contentment.

We never got to see Akram again once he retired, but for him that won't be his goodbye & frankly the IPL isn't that bad of a final act, just saying.
 
GoUgandaCranes said:
Undoubtedly, time is the greatest leveler & the one opposition that no player can ever master. This is the reason why respecting the sport is so crucial & important.

I have nothing against Kohli, he's a good player & also has helped modernize the cricket of his country in terms of mentality but seeing him struggle so badly now I wish that he retires from test cricket or at least take an elongated break. I know there's an inner voice somewhere in his head that he can reverse all of this & he may well manage to eke out a few good performances from within but our memories work in snapshots instead of films & the current gen that has grown up idolizing him is saving all the wrong snapshots in their head at the moment. His true impact will last generations, that's what will seep into every young cricketer from India, that dogged fighting spirit, that sometimes over the line aggression, the petulant brattish energy that annoys the opposition & also the team mates at times.

Most people will think that he's clinging on because of sponsorship deals & it may have some truth to it but it's more likely Kohlis wish to go out on a high instead of a low. Honestly when a player that we grew up watching retires, a part of us dies too.

Personally, I can never forget the retirement of Akram. It was the lowest of lows & he didn't even get to bowl in his farewell match because of persistent rain. The 2003 worldcup for that reason was so tragic, seeing a great player who was my childhood hero retire in such a damp manner. I always felt that Akram could play a couple more years, heck he was bowling almost 140s even at the time when he called it a day. But he didn't & that is how life is & we should just move on.

Kohli on his day in his prime was a bonafide superstar & that is how I want to remember him. Someone who as an opponent you were afraid of but also had respect for. Not a washed up has been who is seen as a selfish bloke that's blocking a spot for a young up & coming talent. As I said above, his true impact will last generations & for the sake of that, he should take a break from test cricket. Go on your own terms, leave at a time when people still wonder that maybe if he spent another few months or played in that particular ground he would have scored a century or won us the game.

I hope he hears the distant voice calling his name, accepts his fate, & walks into the sunset with grace, dignity, & contentment.

We never got to see Akram again once he retired, but for him that won't be his goodbye & frankly the IPL isn't that bad of a final act, just saying.
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Very nice post. I'm sorry for your thoughts for Akram. He was very respected in India too and we all sad when retirement.

Kohli will discuss his future with BCCI and make decision best for Team India.

Yes he is not producing with the bat but for youngster having Kohli in dressing room is something you cannot measuring with the runs alone.
 
GoUgandaCranes said:
Undoubtedly, time is the greatest leveler & the one opposition that no player can ever master. This is the reason why respecting the sport is so crucial & important.

I have nothing against Kohli, he's a good player & also has helped modernize the cricket of his country in terms of mentality but seeing him struggle so badly now I wish that he retires from test cricket or at least take an elongated break. I know there's an inner voice somewhere in his head that he can reverse all of this & he may well manage to eke out a few good performances from within but our memories work in snapshots instead of films & the current gen that has grown up idolizing him is saving all the wrong snapshots in their head at the moment. His true impact will last generations, that's what will seep into every young cricketer from India, that dogged fighting spirit, that sometimes over the line aggression, the petulant brattish energy that annoys the opposition & also the team mates at times.

Most people will think that he's clinging on because of sponsorship deals & it may have some truth to it but it's more likely Kohlis wish to go out on a high instead of a low. Honestly when a player that we grew up watching retires, a part of us dies too.

Personally, I can never forget the retirement of Akram. It was the lowest of lows & he didn't even get to bowl in his farewell match because of persistent rain. The 2003 worldcup for that reason was so tragic, seeing a great player who was my childhood hero retire in such a damp manner. I always felt that Akram could play a couple more years, heck he was bowling almost 140s even at the time when he called it a day. But he didn't & that is how life is & we should just move on.

Kohli on his day in his prime was a bonafide superstar & that is how I want to remember him. Someone who as an opponent you were afraid of but also had respect for. Not a washed up has been who is seen as a selfish bloke that's blocking a spot for a young up & coming talent. As I said above, his true impact will last generations & for the sake of that, he should take a break from test cricket. Go on your own terms, leave at a time when people still wonder that maybe if he spent another few months or played in that particular ground he would have scored a century or won us the game.

I hope he hears the distant voice calling his name, accepts his fate, & walks into the sunset with grace, dignity, & contentment.

We never got to see Akram again once he retired, but for him that won't be his goodbye & frankly the IPL isn't that bad of a final act, just saying.
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This write-up is 3 years late. He should have been kicked out 3 years back. He has crossed the limit of empathy long back. Right now all i have for him is anger. Nobody could get away with such poor performance for such a long period. Any player other than Kohli would have lost his spot 4 years back. It has never happened in Indian history. No superstar has survived this long. Not even Sachin. But Sachin quickly realized and bid adieu. Even he was not this bad at the fag end of his career.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
This write-up is 3 years late. He should have been kicked out 3 years back. He has crossed the limit of empathy long back. Right now all i have for him is anger. Nobody could get away with such poor performance for such a long period. Any player other than Kohli would have lost his spot 4 years back. It has never happened in Indian history. No superstar has survived this long. Not even Sachin. But Sachin quickly realized and bid adieu. Even he was not this bad at the fag end of his career.
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I don't follow Indian cricket so I don't feel or see it as you do so you can say this post is from my perspective. I just feel he wants to retire after winning the ICC test championship or series in RSA. The WTC win isn't farfetched, might happen this year but idk when India is traveling to RSA.

Other than that I don't think there's anything to achieve for him in test cricket. Pak won't ever qualify for WTC final nor they are a good enough team that he'd want to check that box so maybe just one final trophy or conquering the final frontier.
 
dravid, tendu, sunny, viru, azhar, and pbly laxman will likely end up coming ahead of him in indias pantheon of batsmen if he keeps failing like this. gone from being a potential atg to being a good indian batsman.
 
Age is zero excuse for Kohlis decline. He's fit as a fiddle. He's clearly been cutting corners in the nets in the past 4 years and it's showing in his output. When you have a family and kids, you obviously cannot devote the same kind of time and energy to your practice drills in the nets as you did when you were single or if you didn't have kids. If previously you used to work 12-15 hours a day in your job when you were single or without kids, you will have to compromise and cut down your hours to 8-9 when you have kids.
 
Savak said:
Age is zero excuse for Kohlis decline. He's fit as a fiddle. He's clearly been cutting corners in the nets in the past 4 years and it's showing in his output. When you have a family and kids, you obviously cannot devote the same kind of time and energy to your practice drills in the nets as you did when you were single or if you didn't have kids. If previously you used to work 12-15 hours a day in your job when you were single or without kids, you will have to compromise and cut down your hours to 8-9 when you have kids.
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Marriage can always affect a player's intensity.

Players often mellow down after marriages.
 
King of choking. King of soft runs.
Savak said:
Age is zero excuse for Kohlis decline. He's fit as a fiddle. He's clearly been cutting corners in the nets in the past 4 years and it's showing in his output. When you have a family and kids, you obviously cannot devote the same kind of time and energy to your practice drills in the nets as you did when you were single or if you didn't have kids. If previously you used to work 12-15 hours a day in your job when you were single or without kids, you will have to compromise and cut down your hours to 8-9 when you have kids.
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Yes he's the only one with a family no other cricketer has a family. The extent of excuses Pakistanis make for kohli is embarrassing.
 
Savak said:
Age is zero excuse for Kohlis decline. He's fit as a fiddle. He's clearly been cutting corners in the nets in the past 4 years and it's showing in his output. When you have a family and kids, you obviously cannot devote the same kind of time and energy to your practice drills in the nets as you did when you were single or if you didn't have kids. If previously you used to work 12-15 hours a day in your job when you were single or without kids, you will have to compromise and cut down your hours to 8-9 when you have kids.
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That’s 100% true and it’s not just cricket but every sport/profession is the same.
There are a very few select people who give same amount of time/dedication to their profession even after having kids and those are the kind of ones who are the top 0.00001% of their said profession.

I have nothing against Kohli not being in that 0.000001%.
 
Marooned said:
He is the opposite of Amla.

Amla had soft runs in white ball but a lot of tough runs in tests.

Kohli had tough runs in white ball but just soft runs in tests.
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Even in ODIs, Kohli has scored a lot of soft runs. Has only dominated 1 ODI WC despite playing 4 of them and being an ATG in that format.
 
Varun said:
Bringing this down to 1/10.
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I'd give current Kohli -2/10 considering he is just a liability for Indian cricket in all facets of the game.

His biggest crime is that he is blocking the path of a youngster who could have been a regular no.4 for us by now.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
His career trajectory is very similar to Hashim Amla's.
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When we judge the career of a player just like we consider both aspects. How much helpful you were for the team. How much harmful you were for the team. When you consider both harmful can outweigth helpful pretty soon. THat is a negative career.
 
It is comical how delusional Indians have the audacity to compare their 46 averaging fraud with Younis Khan.

Kohli merits a comparison with other ordinary Indian Test batsman like Ganguly, VVS, Rahane, Pujara who didn’t have the skill to average 50+.
 
big_gamer007 said:
He finished as a good player in league of YK, Amla, Peterson type players.

Could have been in league of Dravid/Sanga/Kallis but never stood a chance to be in Sachin/Lara/Viv/Bradman/Smith/Ponting etc level.
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In Test cricket, Kohli doesn't quite belong in the same league as Younis Khan, Hashim Amla, or Kevin Pietersen, as they had a major impact as batters for their teams. Their place in team was rarely questioned. These players were instrumental in securing several iconic wins and series victories, home and away. The same cannot be said for Kohli, and there’s a strong argument that India might have been a better batting side if he had never played Test cricket.

Kohli is more comparable to Mahela Jayawardena, albeit slightly ahead as a batter. Just like Mahela Jaywardena, average of 46 actually flatters Kohli. While Kohli has a superior overseas record compared to Jayawardena, he has struggled significantly at home against strong opposition. Despite numerous opportunities, he has yet to prove himself against quality spin bowling.

Also After this series, any notion of a rivalry between Kohli and Smith can be dismissed, as Kohli can never match Smith's impact as a batter, even in his dreams. This series highlighted that, after the first Test, even an out-of-form Steve Smith is twice as impactful as an in-form Virat Kohli.
 
Kohli might be India's biggest stat padder and this series might be the the perfect example. More than 50 percent of his runs in this series came in a single knock where there was absolute no pressure.

Pat Cummins as a batter has won more matches for his team than Kohli with bat in Test Cricket.
 
starpain said:
Kohli might be India's biggest stat padder and this series might be the the perfect example. More than 50 percent of his runs in this series came in a single knock where there was absolute no pressure.

Pat Cummins as a batter has won more matches for his team than Kohli with bat in Test Cricket.
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Even Boland's runs were more useful
 
big_gamer007 said:
He finished as a good player in league of YK, Amla, Peterson type players.

Could have been in league of Dravid/Sanga/Kallis but never stood a chance to be in Sachin/Lara/Viv/Bradman/Smith/Ponting etc level.
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He finished well below all of them.
 
Indian fans are hurting for sure and I believe are harshly rating his career in light of today's defeat. With the exception of @big_gamer007 who must have had some special cereal this morning.

While Kohli is not on the same level as test greats he is also not a 1/10 or 2/10 test player either. He has a career with some stellar moments and when the dust settles on this Indian defeat will be seen as a very good and at times vital player for India.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Indian fans are hurting for sure and I believe are harshly rating his career in light of today's defeat. With the exception of @big_gamer007 who must have had some special cereal this morning.

While Kohli is not on the same level as test greats he is also not a 1/10 or 2/10 test player either. He has a career with some stellar moments and when the dust settles on this Indian defeat will be seen as a very good and at times vital player for India.
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He doesn't make our test all-time XI:

Sehwag
Gavaskar
Dravid
Tendulkar
Laxman
Ganguly (c)
Dhoni (wk)
Ashwin
Kumble
Zaheer
Bumrah

12th: Azharuddin
 
lol yeah Kohli the test player is not a patch on YK maybe Mo Yo is a better comparison but Younis is leagues ahead
 
Batters better than him by each country

England​

Sir Jack Hobbs
Sir Len Hutton
Walter Hammond
Herbert Sutcliffe
Joe Root
Ken Barrington
Dennis Compton
Peter May
Geoffrey Boycott
Graham Gooch (maybe)

Australia ​

Victor Trumper
Donald Bradman
Greg Chappel
Allan Border
Niel Harvey
Ricky Ponting
Steven Smith
Steven Waugh

India​

Sachin Tendulkar
Sunil Gavaskar
Rahul Dravid
Vijay Merchant

The West Indies​

George Headley
Sir Frank Worrell
Sir Clyde Walcott
Sir Everton Weekes
Sir Garfield Sobers
Sir Issac Vivian Alexander Richards
Brian Lara
Clive Lloyd
Rohan Kanhai
Gordon Greenidge (maybe)

Pakistan​

Javed Miandad
Younis Khan (maybe)

New Zealand​

Kane Williamson
Marin Crowe

Sri Lanka​

Kumar Sangakkara

South Africa​

Dudley Nourse
Barry Richards
Graeme Pollock
AB De Villiers
Jacques Kallis

not even top 40 is tragic for a man of his talent.
 
Bradman
Tendulkar
Lara
Gavaskar
Kohli

This is the top 5 batsman in cricket. The way Kohli dominate in Australia no other batsman has done it that's why he is my number 5.

Indian fans are being angry but Virat doesn't deserve it this much.

Win and lose happen but legend is always legend.
 
BCCI-Enforcer said:
Bradman
Tendulkar
Lara
Gavaskar
Kohli

This is the top 5 batsman in cricket. The way Kohli dominate in Australia no other batsman has done it that's why he is my number 5.

Indian fans are being angry but Virat doesn't deserve it this much.

Win and lose happen but legend is always legend.
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Kohli isn't the third best Test batsman of his generation, let alone top 5 all time.
 
BCCI-Enforcer said:
Who better than him in his generation?

Steve Smith cheater or Joe Root who is home track bully. These are the names you will say.

Kohli is bigger player with more achievements than both.
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Steve Smith allowing his bowlers to use Sandpapers doesn't mean anything.

Joe Root averages 47 away from home, Kohli 41, Clearly Root is ahead in that regard.
 
BCCI-Enforcer said:
This is the top 5 batsman in cricket. The way Kohli dominate in Australia no other batsman has done it that's why he is my number 5..
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Lol Hammond, Viv, Clive Lloyd, Sachin are all better in Australia.

Virat doesn't have one match winning knock in Australia, it's just pointless hundred spam on roads, the series where it wasn't just roads he averages like 30.
 
Hitman said:
Why are you hell bent on embarrassing the rest of us Indian posters on PP?
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If you are embarass by your own player not my fault. Kohli is a GOAT and has helped us with many big achievements overseas. You can cry in front of Pakistani if you like but we should give legend the respect they deserve.
 
atreus said:
Lol Hammond, Viv, Clive Lloyd, Sachin are all better in Australia.

Virat doesn't have one match winning knock in Australia, it's just pointless hundred spam on roads, the series where it wasn't just roads he averages like 30.
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Ok you are right I forget king Viv my mistake but Kohli is still with the GOATs
 
BCCI-Enforcer said:
If you are embarass by your own player not my fault. Kohli is a GOAT and has helped us with many big achievements overseas. You can cry in front of Pakistani if you like but we should give legend the respect they deserve.
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So you want us to agree with you that Kohli is the 5th greatest Test batsman ever?
 
BCCI-Enforcer said:
Maybe I was too emotional for saying 5th after India lost but he is in the mix with GOAT players for sure yes I am certain of it.
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GOAT means greatest of all time. Theirs no such thing as a mix.

Now if you're generalising, GOAT, will still be applicable to top 15 to top 25 in cricket which kohli doesn't come close to.

In odi hes top 3, Put him at 1 of you wish.

In test he is a below 50avg batter who has been avg 16 to 25 for 6 years now excluding a brief purple patch in 2023.

He was 30 when he became rubbish in tests. That's not the sign of a quality test batter. His form slump didn't start at 36. It started at 30.
 
Hitman said:
Azharuddin was nothing more than an extremely mediocre Test batsman, with a pathetic average of 36 away from home. Was a bang average ODI batsman as well.
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I think Azha is kinda underrated.He still better than many asian batsman during his time and can be equal to Aravinda de Silva
 
Fanboy375 said:
I think Azha is kinda underrated.He still better than many asian batsman during his time and can be equal to Aravinda de Silva
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Yea, equal to Aravinda de Silva in batting ability. But not even good enough to kiss his boots as a sportsman because the Sri Lankan was a man of integrity unlike that scum.
 
big_gamer007 said:
That’s 100% true and it’s not just cricket but every sport/profession is the same.
There are a very few select people who give same amount of time/dedication to their profession even after having kids and those are the kind of ones who are the top 0.00001% of their said profession.

I have nothing against Kohli not being in that 0.000001%.
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Yeah Ronaldo and Messi are still active yet they have family.
 
Fanboy375 said:
Yeah Ronaldo and Messi are still active yet they have family.
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The lack of basic knowledge shown in this post is beyond belief.

I would have replied to you in detail had you put some effort and shown even 1% effort, but I feel it will be a waste to educate someone with 0 knowledge like yourself.
 
I enjoyed that last little bit where he was mimicking sandpapergate.


Kohli has tarnished his test legacy and he cannot undo the damage. Best he walk away before embarrassing himself in whiteball cricket too. Dhruv Jurel could have won us this series but now we'll never know :sachin
 
atreus said:
"Let me tell you dear boy, I saw Hammond, and Hammond has them both (Viv and Barry) in a corner." — E.W Swanton, The Godfather of Cricketing Journalism
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These English journalist are maybe your reference but not for me sorry. I don't know these Hammond type old men players.

If Hammond was to face Bumrah he would be out within 3 balls.
 
BCCI-Enforcer said:
These English journalist are maybe your reference but not for me sorry. I don't know these Hammond type old men players.

If Hammond was to face Bumrah he would be out within 3 balls.
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Bruh, No.

Bumrah isn't express enough to use the era advantage and his ball movement/erratic bounce isn't as awful as the ones Hammond have faced on uncovered wickets. He might struggle with "150 kmph wobble!" merchants tho
 
Was always a very overrated in tests. He's got below par average in 2 SENA countries, his average in NZ, is boosted by 1 ton where he was actually dismissed for a duck at the time when India were refusing the use of DRS.
 
khyberlion said:
Was always a very overrated in tests. He's got below par average in 2 SENA countries, his average in NZ, is boosted by 1 ton where he was actually dismissed for a duck at the time when India were refusing the use of DRS.
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It is nothing to do with SENA , KENA. It is the weakness that can be exploited even in antartica. He gets out like this in every country in the world.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
It is nothing to do with SENA , KENA. It is the weakness that can be exploited even in antartica. He gets out like this in every country in the world.
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I agree with you. I am just pointing out the struggles in those countries. For a veteran with over 100 tests, it is quite embarrassing the way he's getting out. This has been the story of his dismissals from the start of his career.
 
khyberlion said:
I agree with you. I am just pointing out the struggles in those countries. For a veteran with over 100 tests, it is quite embarrassing the way he's getting out. This has been the story of his dismissals from the start of his career.
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He has played exceptionally well when he was in form because he had great reflexes back then. This weakness could be masked. Not anymore. Especially his 153 in SA is one of the best overseas innings i have seen. Ball was doing al sorts of things. Steyn was bowling peach after peach. Same way his Perth innings was a top shelf knock. His reflex is gone. He is not finding the middle. Consistently finding the edge. Unlike Sachin he doesn't have too many types of shots through off side. Most relies on drives.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
He has played exceptionally well when he was in form because he had great reflexes back then. This weakness could be masked. Not anymore. Especially his 153 in SA is one of the best overseas innings i have seen. Ball was doing al sorts of things. Steyn was bowling peach after peach. Same way his Perth innings was a top shelf knock. His reflex is gone. He is not finding the middle. Consistently finding the edge. Unlike Sachin he doesn't have too many types of shots through off side. Most relies on drives.
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He needs to call it a day specially in test formats. He has ruined his legacy big time. To think he was in conversations of being one of the greats and now to this. This has been a spectrum fall. I am not sure who's next in line for India, but they will have someone pretty good replacing him due to the batting talent in the country.
 
khyberlion said:
He needs to call it a day specially in test formats. He has ruined his legacy big time. To think he was in conversations of being one of the greats and now to this. This has been a spectrum fall. I am not sure who's next in line for India, but they will have someone pretty good replacing him due to the batting talent in the country.
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I will have some empathy for him if he has gone back to first class or county cricket to rectify his mistake. He refused to play domestic cricket. There is an interesting fact that Sachin Tendulkar played his last domestic first class game in 2012. But Kohli played his last first class game before that. Basically he is using internationals as training ground.He is purely selected basis of PR. No first class performance. Nothing. There is nobody in the world that gets selected this way. Smith would have been dropped long back had he performed like this.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Indian fans are hurting for sure and I believe are harshly rating his career in light of today's defeat. With the exception of @big_gamer007 who must have had some special cereal this morning.

While Kohli is not on the same level as test greats he is also not a 1/10 or 2/10 test player either. He has a career with some stellar moments and when the dust settles on this Indian defeat will be seen as a very good and at times vital player for India.
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I lost emotional connection with cricket when I grew up and Sachin retiring was the last connection I had with my childhood, after that I have 0 emotions with cricket.

I watch it for fun, sometimes to troll on PP, winning or losing doesn’t matter to me, if India wins I will of course be happy but if we lose, I point out the flaws of the team/system/government/people/country as whole which most folks don’t seem to grasp (low IQ can’t interconnect different aspects).

At the end, nothing is going to change and we will continue to be a decent team but never a world beater and dominating team like we were at home.

Indians are bashing Kohli because of his recent failures, Pakistanis are bashing him since they enjoy rubbing it to Indians. However, cricketers/pundits rate him highly because of how he batted in the past in Australia, SA and England (after his initial debacle there). His innings of 47 or something in SA when the pitch was a nightmare and match was being discussed to be called off for a bad pitch showed how much grit and class he had as a batsman.
His peers and pundits understand that and rate him highly due to that while nerds on forums like PP only look at recent innings or stats.

Like I said, Kohli will finish his career as an ATG.

He’s on Mount Rushmore in LOI’s
In tests he’s alongside YK, Peterson, Amla etc types. Some might consider him the worst amongst these guys some might consider him the best, it depends on one’s biases.

Overall, he overachieved considerably compared to many more talented players just due to his sheer dedication, hard work and determination.

He should retire now and focus on making money in IPL and his family.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
I will have some empathy for him if he has gone back to first class or county cricket to rectify his mistake. He refused to play domestic cricket. There is an interesting fact that Sachin Tendulkar played his last domestic first class game in 2012. But Kohli played his last first class game before that. Basically he is using internationals as training ground. He is purely selected basis of PR. No first class performance. Nothing. There is nobody in the world that gets selected this way. Smith would have been dropped long back had he performed like this.
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Kohli is too arrogant to play FC cricket. FC cricket is for mere mortals, not for him.

Its so amazing to note that he hasn't played a single FC game for so many years now! So I never feel sorry for his downfall as a batsman and as a cricketer.

Has there been any other international cricketer of repute who didn't play FC cricket for so long?
 
Kohli’s impact is similar to Azharuddin. Like Azhar, Kohli had his moments in tests. Like Azhar he will likely make the Indian team of the decade but not an all time Indian 11. The difference is maybe Kohli made the most of his ability but Azhar possibly did not hit his ceiling and could have done better.
 
For the last couple of years, his impact has been zero. Only impact he can make now is by retiring and let some youngster take his place in the team.
 
Former tennis great, Jim Courier when asked about Kohli,

Did you hear about Virat Kohli, the Indian cricket superstar?

"Yeah, I heard about him and here he nearly got out first ball," the two- time French and Australian Open champion said, referring to the star batter's near first ball dismissal in the first innings."
 
Kohli is not worthy of the fandom, stardom and wealth that he has enjoyed given his ordinary Test credentials.

He is arguably the luckiest cricketer in history. His stature and reputation are far better than his talent and skill.
 
Best by a country mile from India:

1. Kohli
2. Sehwag
3. Dravid
4. Azharuddin
5. Tendulkar
 
Mamoon said:
Kohli is not worthy of the fandom, stardom and wealth that he has enjoyed given his ordinary Test credentials.

He is arguably the luckiest cricketer in history. His stature and reputation are far better than his talent and skill.
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His fandom mainly came for his loi batting.
 
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