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

[Mamoon]

His fandom mainly came for his loi batting.

Yes but the question is, does a player deserve to be one of the biggest superstars in the history of the sport when he is not good enough to be counted amongst the Test legends? Surely not. This is why he is lucky.

 

[Ab Fan]

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.

It is a learning for his fans or those who were his fanboys in past that until a player truly delivers the performance of the calibre of the greats for a long period of time, he should not be glorified and worshipped. Kohli doesn’t deserve the stature and reputation which Pakistanis on this forum gave to him over the last decade or so for whatever be the reasons behind it.

 

[Fanboy375]

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.

Imagine he being born in Aus or SA

 

[Cricket Warrior]

zero Impact and 100% arrogance on the field

 

[FearlessRoar]

Michael Clarke during a conversation on a podcast:

“At certain stages in the series, you saw Kohli defend the balls that he's nicking. He’s pushing at it, and you saw him make a 100. Sometimes, we see our deficiencies more than our strengths. This guy is a one-of-a-kind player. He needs to keep believing that. I don’t think he needs to let that ball go; if he intends to score, he should keep going.”

“Sachin is a very different player from Virat Kohli; I saw many people ask Kohli to replicate what Sachin did in Sydney by letting the ball go outside off stump. Virat’s greatest strength is bat on ball; bat on ball is fine. Playing the ball is his strength; he should be looking to get closer to the ball. Get your foot close to the ball and your head close to the ball.”

“I think he needs to go. I have to be sharp on my feet, and I have to have more intent and confidence. Mate, it is Virat Kohli. He can walk out and make a 200 tomorrow. If someone is silly enough to write Kohli off, more fool them. If he retires from Test cricket right now, only India will lose out.”

“If I was captain of any team with Kohli, I’d be fighting to keep him in the team. That guy is a once-in-a-generation player; I would definitely keep him.”

 

[jnaveen1980]

Michael Clarke during a conversation on a podcast:

“At certain stages in the series, you saw Kohli defend the balls that he's nicking. He’s pushing at it, and you saw him make a 100. Sometimes, we see our deficiencies more than our strengths. This guy is a one-of-a-kind player. He needs to keep believing that. I don’t think he needs to let that ball go; if he intends to score, he should keep going.”

“Sachin is a very different player from Virat Kohli; I saw many people ask Kohli to replicate what Sachin did in Sydney by letting the ball go outside off stump. Virat’s greatest strength is bat on ball; bat on ball is fine. Playing the ball is his strength; he should be looking to get closer to the ball. Get your foot close to the ball and your head close to the ball.”

“I think he needs to go. I have to be sharp on my feet, and I have to have more intent and confidence. Mate, it is Virat Kohli. He can walk out and make a 200 tomorrow. If someone is silly enough to write Kohli off, more fool them. If he retires from Test cricket right now, only India will lose out.”

“If I was captain of any team with Kohli, I’d be fighting to keep him in the team. That guy is a once-in-a-generation player; I would definitely keep him.”

Clarke must be too drunk to say this lol No team will keep a batsman averaging 30 in the lat 5 years.

 

[FearlessRoar]

Most times scoring centuries for India in Tests when nobody else scored even a fifty:

6 - Sachin Tendulkar
5 - Virat Kohli
4 - Rahul Dravid
2 - Gundappa Viswanath
2 - Dilip Vengsarkar
2 - Mohammad Azharuddin
2 - Virender Sehwag
2 - Yuvraj Singh
2 - Cheteshwar Pujara

 

[Champ_Pal]

At this point in his career, Kohli is even behind Sehwag as a Test batsman.

Kohli has lost it. Though he may be talented than Sehwag, Kohli's weakness to meddle with deliveries wide outside the off stump has completely pulled him down.