Which captain has made most selection blunders in Tests in 2018?

[Ali Bohra]

Name Test Captain's who made blunders while Selecting/Decision Making during 2018 Period in Test Cricket.

In This thread I want to know who made most blunders costing its team chances of winning games.

 

[Stumper]

has to be vk

 

[Ali Bohra]

Bad Calls/Selection by Virat Kohli in 2018
-- dropping Ajinkya Rahane, the vice-captain, no less, from the first two Tests in South Africa; dropping Cheteshwar Pujara from the first Test in England; playing two spinners on a nasty, seaming track in the next Test at Lord’s; playing a less-than-fit Ravichandran Ashwin in Southampton; playing no spinners in Perth where Nathan Lyon finished with eight wickets in the match.

 

[Rahul1]

Kohli dropping Bhuvi in the second test in South Africa and dropping Pujara in the first test in England. I would love to know what was going through his mind. If anything.

 

[MP2011]

Virat Kohli, hands down.

 

[Ali Bohra]

The biggest problem that plagued India was dodgy team selection by VK.

Kohli's over-dependence on Hardik Pandya's all-round abilities in red ball cricket can also be questioned.

 

[Babbar]

It has to be VK. He became the first Asian captain to not even able to draw a series in Australia. He selected duds like Vihari, Pant and kept them in team. Then he favoured and encouraged his buddies Bumrah and Kuldeep, who unlike Yasir, Starc, Hassan, sundry Brit bowlers can’t do jack. On top of this, VK has failed with his own performance since he bacame captain. Always Leading from behind, VK also lost the confidence of dressing room long back, unlike Sarfaraz or Paine who are IK and Steve Waugh reincarnations.

No wonder India never reached even second rank in tests for the last so many months, first time in India history. No other captain in cricket history, may be Dhoni and Smith for a shorter time, had ever got his team within top 3 across all formats. Shame.

Compare VK performance with geniuses like Paine, Sarfaraz, Cheat Smith and Brit and SA captains who got thrashed outside their homes and sometimes inside too

The worst captain has to be Kohli! Of course!!

 

[imshally81]

Kholi and Sarfaraz....

 

[Ali Bohra]

It's not about calling VK worst capital bro. U are missing d point of this thread.

It's about some of decision tactical/selection wise which cost india some real chance of winning more game. Or india might hv Been on winning side in SA and even in Eng

 

[Ali Bohra]

Same Tactical/Selection blunders sarfraz made which costed Pak

Only #Discuss those points here

 

[BreadPakoda]

Kohli made some huge blunders this year, however he's made some great decisions as well which don't get acknowledged. E.g. Giving "T-20 specialist" Bumrah a test cap and creating a stable Bumrah-Sharma-Shami attack, bringing in Kuldeep and Chahal (ok that was in 2017) in place of tried and tested Ashwin and Jadeja in ODIs, replacing KL and Murali mid-tour with Mayank and Vihari (since he didn't have Shaw with him), giving "mercurial" Pant a chance, playing Kuldeep in the last Ozzie test etc.

 

[BaankeJi]

If not for Kohli's selection blunders, India would have won in South Africa.

 

[BaankeJi]

I think Kohli is having a tough fight from Sarfraz on this front.

 

[MP2011]

Kohli made some huge blunders this year, however he's made some great decisions as well which don't get acknowledged. E.g. Giving "T-20 specialist" Bumrah a test cap and creating a stable Bumrah-Sharma-Shami attack, bringing in Kuldeep and Chahal (ok that was in 2017) in place of tried and tested Ashwin and Jadeja in ODIs, replacing KL and Murali mid-tour with Mayank and Vihari (since he didn't have Shaw with him), giving "mercurial" Pant a chance, playing Kuldeep in the last Ozzie test etc.

Fully agree. Kohli has his shortcomings as a team selector. However he also has a few ace decisions up his sleeve which proved great.

 

[Babbar]

Captains that takes risk will inevitably make selection mistakes. Some experiments will succeed, while others will fail spectacularly. I will prefer a captain that wins more often than not and experiments to find hidden talent like what IK did in per-historic era, rather than doing nothing but warming captain’s seat. When one makes a person like Virat captain, you have to put up with his idiosyncrasies on and off field. As long as a captain provides better than earlier results, maintains his own performance and has respect of team members, rest is mental ‘mastication’.

 

[hadi123]

Virat Kohli. Cost them the series in SA/England