101% he will be in the squad. Even if he didn't have good IPL he would have been. He is a world T20 legend. But he is not the same we saw in 2016. He can still score better than most. But it doesn't help India's cause.
Past experience teaches us a lot. If you don't handle the transition at the right time there will be a lull. In the past guys like Dravid and Laxman decided to quit out of the blue even though they could have hung on for a while.So Indian middle order suddenly lost a few players. It took a while for guys like Pujara, Rahane to replace them. Sachin being the cult hero needed a fairwell series. This is where i think about Adam Gilchrist's retirement. He dropped a couple of catches against India. He decided "It is time to quit". He sensed he is declining as a cricketer. He called it quits from Tests immediately. Similarly Tendulkar/Dravid/Ganguly none of them took part in 2007 world T20. They decided the game is for youngsters and moved on. I was hoping something like that would happen with Kohli/Rohit. Given that how IPL is a T20 format game and their presence in T20 set up nationally is important for them and their franchise they are not quitting. They are doubling down as a matter of fact. It is understandable if you don't have enough resources in the pipeline. India has plenty of promising youngsters coming through. This is why India played 2 series at the same time in different countries in recent times. England also did the same.
All the trophies which India failed to win in the last 10 years are laughing in the corner.
C Ronaldo getting more butts in seats than Halland or Bellingham isn't a problem but selecting him before them is.
It seems you deliberately ignored the trophy part. Try again.'Kohli goes down the ground....Kohli goes out of the ground' - remember?
You are not laughing much now...don't you?
Cricket is a team game and one person can't win the ICC event. If that is the case greatest cricketer that India ever produced, Sachin Tendulkar, didn't had to wait for 22 years.
When we talk about big game, there are no bigger WC games than Ind v Pak. It is also known as El Classico...you should know it
Below are Kohli's performance in el classico games:
WT20 2012 - Man of the match
WT20 2014 - highest scorer for Ind
WC 2015 - Man of the match
WT20 2016 - Man of the match
WC 2019 - 2nd highest run getter for Ind
WT20 2021 - highest run scorer for Ind
WT20 2022 - Man of the match
WC 2023 - Flopped
Still laughing at the corner??
What’s the point of all this if India didn’t win? India needs to find a winning combination l. If it means kicking Kohli out of the team, should be done. Enough of this someone scoring million runs and thousand centuries to be celebrated but ultimately India not winning the trophy.'Kohli goes down the ground....Kohli goes out of the ground' - remember?
You are not laughing much now...don't you?
Cricket is a team game and one person can't win the ICC event. If that is the case greatest cricketer that India ever produced, Sachin Tendulkar, didn't had to wait for 22 years.
When we talk about big game, there are no bigger WC games than Ind v Pak. It is also known as El Classico...you should know it
Below are Kohli's performance in el classico games:
WT20 2012 - Man of the match
WT20 2014 - highest scorer for Ind
WC 2015 - Man of the match
WT20 2016 - Man of the match
WC 2019 - 2nd highest run getter for Ind
WT20 2021 - highest run scorer for Ind
WT20 2022 - Man of the match
WC 2023 - Flopped
Still laughing at the corner??
Good ODI team.
Unfortunately it will be the T20 team too. Selectors will not have the guts to drop Kohli or Rohit or even Hardik.Good ODI team.
Don't need Kohli there, Rinku despite being just a batter must be a member of the squad.
but India wont find a superstar like him who knows the art of chasing and u know we have seen quite number of times India stuck in such a situation where only player like VK can bring them out, nobody has the ability from the current indian team to replace him may be in futire we will find any.
virat and rohit right?
Day by day its looks atrocious to pick Gill ahead of abhishek let alone kohli.abhishek is playing at 300 sr for a quick fire 11 or 12 balls 35 runs.I wish selection team have some guts to throw the seniors in the garbage can.
Not just them kl hardik jadeja Ashwin those players to
Game has changed.
Bumrah @8 not good we lost a series in west indies because of our long tail
yep, jadeja and hardik should also be given a red light for this squad but everybody knows, they will be in.
Against SRH, the talismanic batter started off well, scoring 32 runs from 18 ball inside the powerplay. But, right after the end of the 6th over, the pace with which Virat scored runs went drastically down.
I want jaiswal and abhishek to open.no need of any seniors apart from bumrah,kd and we should let go all the garbage
I don't think anyone can choke more than Rohit and Rahul in T20 like they did in 2022 even with experience. If you give thee guys provide a template as long a they stick to that we should be happy success or failure.
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar criticised Virat Kohli, Gavaskar said during commentary:
That’s subjective also. Maybe a better and more fearless t20 player would have not taken the game to the last three overs? If you look at Indias T20 losses over the years you would see Kohli’s slow starts have caused them the tournaments.
Lol AB sounds like a real whiner
lol people were saying the same thing about him during the last WC.
They were saying it even during the match vs Pakistan.
And we saw what he did at the end of that game
There is not a single youngsta beauty in India who can do what he did in that match. There's nothing else to say on the matter.
Not really. we know how this will pan out. His presence makes sure there is no real template for the team. There is no role clarity because of it. Everyone plays around him while him eating balls. Then they get into a rut. It is a vicious cycle. It makes other underperform.
That is not exactly a choice right? There are times you have to set the target.
I think his Interational SR is not that bad, he manages it quite well towards the end of the innning.
This guy is playing from 2008, for god sake. Since winning the champions trophy in 2013 under Ms. Dhoni, he has played around 8 ICC tournaments, and 10 if we include the ICC test championship. He has nothing to show; why should he continue? Because I know once he reaches the West Indies and the USA, he will start with the same old approach where he will be worried about his average and the player of the tournament awards. I have been watching him since I started watching cricket, and trust me, he is completely opposite of what he was three or four years ago. He plays for himself; he plays for these individuals accolades. He has lost hope that his team will win anything. Let me just win something for myself, at least. I know Babar has weaknesses, but I still support him because he has a good 2-3 peak years where I hope he turns things around. Hopefully, if he doesn't, after that, even I will start campaigning against him to not include him in the squad because he has nothing to show and he is 33–34 years old right now. People should learn to move on from players once their favorites turn old.
Your last line sums it up perfectly . Moving on. Typical SC trait. The 2016-2019 dhoni was a selfish loser who didn't deserve a place. Javed miandad had no business being in the 96 wc pak team. Even in 92- one could see he was nearing the end of his career. Used his entire memory of reserves to play the 92 sf final knocks. Should have retired. But pak picked him in 96 because they won 92 wc. Teams evolve especially way faster in sports. And in the 96 qf - expecting a miracle from him because he hit a last ball 6 in 1986.. he struggled so badly in that game . SC mentality- folks don't move on . No way does kohli deserve a place in t20 ind team. T20 is a no anchor game now. Got to go from ball one. Kohli tuk tuked in 2022 t20wc sf and eng hammered the chase . And this applies only for t20. Kohli would still be the first name on the sheet for odis and tests.
Correct correct. The thing is, if I have to be very honest here, when I look at Pakistani uncapped players, I honestly see no talent there. Even if Pak goes with Rizwan, Babar, or whoever I know, they will be slow, but they will do their job better than the others because, as I accept, they are not better than the other teams, but they are better than the players who are in our team, so I can't complain there. But look what talent Bcci has in their hands, and still going for these selfish individuals is mind-boggling. May be it's true they go for Instagram followers these days rather than the present talent. This will bite them for a long time, I am telling you. Pakistan doesn't have the ability to win with any of the squads, but India does if they use their youngest players properly. I was seeing one interview of Virat with Gaurav; it was a 5-year-old interview where he clearly stated that he would retire if he felt he was not doing justice to the team. Where is that Virat now? Maybe he also thought at that moment that he would never face downfall; it happens with most individuals, so I can't blame him for that. Now he is selfish, and it hurts me because I have a huge respect for him. Bcci has to understand that these fan followings of Virat and Rohit will continue even after 10 years. Does that mean you will keep playing them for that popularity only? But yes, if they win something for you, then who cares, right?
