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[REPORTS] Virat Kohli's captaincy under threat in shorter formats, Rohit Sharma being considered

jagatk said:
1. You are giving him too much credit, if this was dhoni or ganguly, i would applaud the decision as their style is to give a player a long rope, with kohli his is more if you aren't my friend then you either perform or perish, if you are my friend it doesn't matter whether you perform. Ashwin and jaddu aren't exactly his best mates.

2. While he did bring bumrah in, his other selections cost us the SA and Eng series, if he is going to get the credit he should also get the criticism.

3. Absolutely disagree, pujara never need fire. He was going through a bad patch where he got starts but just couldn't continue, he was quick to drop pujara but rahul and rohit seem to fail every chance but get picked for the next game come what may, especially rahul. That's bias not greater good.

4 and 5. Can't disagree

He is an obnoxious little brat who needs someone with actual brains around him, who can tell this little tinpot dictator how stupid he is, Kohli can work in test as captain if he has a strong coach who can take this brat a peg or 2 down. If we are to continue with the drunkard, kohli absolutely shouldn't stay captain.
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Brat on the field.

Gentleman off the field.

True leader.
 
jagatk said:
Yes getting kumble sacked clearly showed how much of a gentleman he really is.
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He is a changed man.

He was bad to Kumble.

Then God made us lose the CT finals.

Which made him see the error in his ways.

He proved it by being nice to Pakistanis after the final loss. :P

Spot punishment and repentance.
 
Indian cricket team: Is there a rift between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma

Indian cricket is a funny beast and it’s anybody’s guess when it will turn to bite you

Dubai: It’s not even a couple of weeks since India’s heart-breaking 18-run defeat to New Zealand in the ICC cricket World Cup 2019 semi-finals – but the whispers are growing louder by the day. All is not well in the Indian cricket squad. One section of players are allegedly aghast at captain Virat Kohli, coach Ravi Shastri and bowling coach Bharat Arun.

There’s discontent over unilateral decisions and partisanship, over team selection blunders at the World Cup and over benching talents like Mohammad Shami and Ravindra Jadeja during crucial matches. As the Indian cricket board names the squad for India’s series against West Indies, Gulf News dives deep into the storm that’s brewing in the dressing room:

The Indian team seems to have been hit by a rift between two super stars – Indian skipper Virat Kohli and opener Rohit Sharma.

Though the team management did their best to keep the news about the conflict between the two stars under wraps during the recent World Cup, soon after the team’s defeat to England as well as New Zealand in the semifinal, it spilled out into the open.

It is now becoming evident that the World Cup was played with Indian team divided into two camps – namely Kohli camp and Sharma camp. There were heavy disagreements on many issues with Kohli and even coach Ravi Shastri having a tough time to sort it out. With Sharma piling up centuries after centuries, the power of Sharma supporters and their views became stronger. Towards the end, especially after the defeat in the semifinal, it had reached a stage of a group mooting the idea that Kohli, who hasn’t won any ICC tournament for India, should step down from captaincy. India’s bowling coach Bharat Arun even admitted that certain players were working as a unit but quickly added that arguments and discussions can happen when taking decisions.

Kohli, who had ensured total control over the team till now, has found himself in a shaky situation after Sharma scored heavily while he did not even hit any century.

Though Kohli justified his form stating that he could not score a century owing to playing the role of a supporter to others, his view point did not receive the required backing. Meanwhile, a section in the BCCI were also influenced by the demand for split captaincy by suggesting that Sharma should lead India in limited over matches and Kohli’s captaincy be confined to Test matches.

The Sharma group is understood to have been upset at Mohammad Shami being made to sit out for a match, despite being their most successful bowler and Ravindra Jadeja, who proved to be a success through a fighting knock in semifinal, being ignored for many matches.

Soon it has become evident that Kohli does not have the knack to handle super stars in the team, like Sourav Ganguly did with Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman and MS Dhoni in the team. Kohli’s captaincy had thus far gone smoothly as he was the only consistent scorer in the team till the rise of Sharma.

If not for the conflict, Kohli would have taken a break from the West Indies tour.

But now Kohli has ensured that he is available for T20, one-dayers and Test matches – putting the selectors in a dilemma of being unable to give the captaincy to Sharma. The selectors by appointing Kohli for all formats has now bought time because before the series against South Africa in October, Indian team may have new support staff.

However, whether the rift will be sorted out and whether Kohli will be able to keep the captaincy in limited over matches, one will have to wait and watch.

https://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/...-virat-kohli-and-rohit-sharma-1.1563718097857
 
This is like a no brainier how did it take them this long to realize? After Dhoni the captain should of always been Rohit Sharma.
 
Grass is always greener on the other side.

Lets see how long the Rohit Sharma bubble last.

The actual problem is and was always Dhoni.
 
The Viper said:
Indian cricket team: Is there a rift between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma

Indian cricket is a funny beast and it’s anybody’s guess when it will turn to bite you

Dubai: It’s not even a couple of weeks since India’s heart-breaking 18-run defeat to New Zealand in the ICC cricket World Cup 2019 semi-finals – but the whispers are growing louder by the day. All is not well in the Indian cricket squad. One section of players are allegedly aghast at captain Virat Kohli, coach Ravi Shastri and bowling coach Bharat Arun.

There’s discontent over unilateral decisions and partisanship, over team selection blunders at the World Cup and over benching talents like Mohammad Shami and Ravindra Jadeja during crucial matches. As the Indian cricket board names the squad for India’s series against West Indies, Gulf News dives deep into the storm that’s brewing in the dressing room:

The Indian team seems to have been hit by a rift between two super stars – Indian skipper Virat Kohli and opener Rohit Sharma.

Though the team management did their best to keep the news about the conflict between the two stars under wraps during the recent World Cup, soon after the team’s defeat to England as well as New Zealand in the semifinal, it spilled out into the open.

It is now becoming evident that the World Cup was played with Indian team divided into two camps – namely Kohli camp and Sharma camp. There were heavy disagreements on many issues with Kohli and even coach Ravi Shastri having a tough time to sort it out. With Sharma piling up centuries after centuries, the power of Sharma supporters and their views became stronger. Towards the end, especially after the defeat in the semifinal, it had reached a stage of a group mooting the idea that Kohli, who hasn’t won any ICC tournament for India, should step down from captaincy. India’s bowling coach Bharat Arun even admitted that certain players were working as a unit but quickly added that arguments and discussions can happen when taking decisions.

Kohli, who had ensured total control over the team till now, has found himself in a shaky situation after Sharma scored heavily while he did not even hit any century.

Though Kohli justified his form stating that he could not score a century owing to playing the role of a supporter to others, his view point did not receive the required backing. Meanwhile, a section in the BCCI were also influenced by the demand for split captaincy by suggesting that Sharma should lead India in limited over matches and Kohli’s captaincy be confined to Test matches.

The Sharma group is understood to have been upset at Mohammad Shami being made to sit out for a match, despite being their most successful bowler and Ravindra Jadeja, who proved to be a success through a fighting knock in semifinal, being ignored for many matches.

Soon it has become evident that Kohli does not have the knack to handle super stars in the team, like Sourav Ganguly did with Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman and MS Dhoni in the team. Kohli’s captaincy had thus far gone smoothly as he was the only consistent scorer in the team till the rise of Sharma.

If not for the conflict, Kohli would have taken a break from the West Indies tour.

But now Kohli has ensured that he is available for T20, one-dayers and Test matches – putting the selectors in a dilemma of being unable to give the captaincy to Sharma. The selectors by appointing Kohli for all formats has now bought time because before the series against South Africa in October, Indian team may have new support staff.

However, whether the rift will be sorted out and whether Kohli will be able to keep the captaincy in limited over matches, one will have to wait and watch.

https://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/...-virat-kohli-and-rohit-sharma-1.1563718097857
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If they lose to WI the chorus will grow louder.
 
gazza619 said:
Grass is always greener on the other side.

Lets see how long the Rohit Sharma bubble last.

The actual problem is and was always Dhoni.
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Rohit has an ipl record which shows he knows how to captain in shorter formats, dhoni is one the problems. If we had sorted out the middle order issue without changing dhoni we might still have won, but we didn't.

Every game kohli captains there is a big problem of selection, go look at the semi final thread and look at how many people were complaining about shami's exclusion, same with DJ's inclusion. And this isn't a hindsight effect, same stuff happened in SA where rahane did not play 2 tests of 3. Same with ChePu in England, while rahul with his consistent bad performances always got picked.

Kohli is basically tendulkar in this regard but with a big difference, tendulkar did not pick his friends over other deserving players and understood and more importantly accepted that he wasn't cut out for captaincy. Kohli is a dictator too afraid to lose power, which is why he has gone from resting for the LoI leg of windies tour to playing every game because India winning under rohit isn't something he can handle.
 
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jagatk said:
Can't pick a guy who didn't have a fixed spot then.
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rohit has been 2nd most imp batsman since 2013 (when he started to open) in short formats and dhoni was captain till 2017 where rohit was one of the biggest batsman in world already. Idk how you can say he didn't have fixed spot in 2017.
 
Sam99 said:
rohit has been 2nd most imp batsman since 2013 (when he started to open) in short formats and dhoni was captain till 2017 where rohit was one of the biggest batsman in world already. Idk how you can say he didn't have fixed spot in 2017.
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You assume that the next captain was picked in 2017, he wasn't. Kohli was picked in 2014 when he captained the test side,post that it was a matter of when rather than if kohli was to be the LoI captain for india. 2014 rohit was just about fixing his spot in the first 11, no one even thought of rohit as an option then. Which is why is i said he didn't have a fixed spot when captaincy was decided.
 
jagatk said:
Rohit has an ipl record which shows he knows how to captain in shorter formats, dhoni is one the problems. If we had sorted out the middle order issue without changing dhoni we might still have won, but we didn't.

Every game kohli captains there is a big problem of selection, go look at the semi final thread and look at how many people were complaining about shami's exclusion, same with DJ's inclusion. And this isn't a hindsight effect, same stuff happened in SA where rahane did not play 2 tests of 3. Same with ChePu in England, while rahul with his consistent bad performances always got picked.

Kohli is basically tendulkar in this regard but with a big difference, tendulkar did not pick his friends over other deserving players and understood and more importantly accepted that he wasn't cut out for captaincy. Kohli is a dictator too afraid to lose power, which is why he has gone from resting for the LoI leg of windies tour to playing every game because India winning under rohit isn't something he can handle.
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I think you are right here. It now makes sense why he didn't give Shankar as many chances as his friend Hardik Pandya during bowling. :inti
 
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Sections of the Indian media saying that Rohit Sharma has unfollowed Virat Kohli & Anushka Sharma on social media after the World Cup.
 
Yes he hs unfollowed them and anushka sharma has posted a cryptic message suddenly hinting at a total rupture.Also reports sharma and kohli are not on speaking terms after semi final.Total circus this ****.
 
It will be 'foolish' to remove Virat Kohli as India captain: Shoaib Akhtar

Since India's semi-final exit from the World Cup 2019, there have been split opinions on whether Virat Kohli should continue as India captain in the limited overs format or should he be replaced by current vice-captain Rohit Sharma.

Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has also joined the ongoing debate and has put his weight behind Virat Kohli to continue as the captain of the Indian cricket team.

While engaging in a question and answer session with fans on Twitter, Shoaib Akhtar said it was not needed for Rohit Sharma to replace Virat Kohli as captain.

Earlier, speaking on his Youtube channel, the former right-arm pacer had backed Kohli to lead the Indian team in all three formats and also explained why it would be 'foolish' to replace him with Rohit Sharma.

"In my opinion Virat Kohli should not be removed as India captain because a lot has been invested into him. He has been leading the side for 3-4 years. He should be continued as the captain of the side with a better coach, a better side and a better selection committee," Akhtar said.

"No doubt Rohit Sharma has been a good captain. He has led his side (Mumbai Indians) quite well in the IPL. But, I believe the investment is already done now in Kohli and he will be a sensible choice to carry on. It would be foolish to remove Kohli now once he has learnt how to lead a team. If BCCI remove him, I will be very very shocked."

The M.S.K Prasad led selection committee named Virat Kohli as captain of the team across all the three formats for the Windies tour that starts from August 3.

Amid the captaincy debate, reports of differences between captain Virat Kohli and vice-captain Rohit Sharma have also been doing the rounds ever since India's World Cup 2019 campaign got over.

Shoiab Akhtar had a opinion on this as well.

"There have been rumours of rift between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. These reports are not true to an extent. There might have been some rift but that would have been way before the World Cup 2019. When I was in India, I too felt some uneasiness between the two players but that did not look unhealthy for the team," Akhtar said on his Youtube channel.

Before departing to the US for the West Indies series Virat Kohli had rubbished the reports of rifts between him and Rohit Sharma and said all such remours were 'ridiculous' and 'disrespectful'.

"In my opinion it's baffling to be honest. It's absolutely ridiculous to read such stuff that comes out. I have been to a few public events and the sentiment is "aap log kya khele (you guys played so well).

"We are feeding off lies. We are overlooking facts. We are turning a blind eye to all the good things that has happened. We are creating fantasies and scenarios in our head and want to accept that this is the truth."

India head coach Ravi Shastri too said the dressing room atmosphere in the India team is healthy and the rift rumours were nothing but 'nonsense'.

https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cr...am-captaincy-shoaib-akhtar-1576197-2019-08-01
 
Virat Kohli is the most disgusting player to ever represent India. Big match choker and incompetent captain. He is overseeing the demise of Indian cricket.
 
I agree with Shoaib actually (one of very few such occasions). Sharma isn’t the fittest guy and he is already 32+ - it’ll be foolish to make him Captain now. This is one such situation when you have 2 top contenders at similar age - one has to miss out & here Sharma missed it. Dough Walters could have been a fantastic Captain for AUS, but he was born exactly middle of two Chappel’s birthday - first lost it to Ian, then he was too old to invest over Greg.

Also, people has to understand that in Indian cricket there has to be a check & balance - if Shastri remains & Sharma is made Captain, it might be tough for non Mumbai players!!!! Delhi buy Kohli is balancing it perfectly with Shastri. If he was just a little more consistent, I would have said KL, but don’t see anyone beyond Kohli till 2023.
 
If Kohli isn't stripped of captaincy before T20 world cup, imma support WI.

Screw it.

I can't take it anymore.

The WORLD's WORST LOI captain.

I don't think anyone even can come close.
 
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His trophy cabinet is empty but he deserves the honor of leading India in home World Cups in 2021 and 2023.

Besides, he is too big a megastar to play under someone else’s captaincy. As long as he is not surpassed by another Indian player in terms of stature, it will not be possible for him to play under the said player’s captaincy.
 
Do you think MSD sticking around would have helped him or the Indian team?
Tho i think msd is past his prime and KL or Pant shall keep but Kohli could ve played under MSD or with MSd.
 
Hyder said:
Do you think MSD sticking around would have helped him or the Indian team?
Tho i think msd is past his prime and KL or Pant shall keep but Kohli could ve played under MSD or with MSd.
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Kohli played enough under that busted flush as it is.
 
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