The cricket lovers in India and across the world terribly shocked upon hearing Virat Kohli’s surprise decision to resign from the captaincy of Indian Test cricket team.
Virat Kohli resigned from the test team captaincy soon after India lost a Test series against South Africa.
Prior to the 2021 T20 World Cup cricket tournament, Virat Kohli declared that he would relinquish from the captaincy after T20 world cup tournament and he does the same.
While declaring the same, he has shown the interest in continuing as a captain of ODI and Test cricket team of India.
Despite his interest, in December 2021 all of a sudden he was sacked as a captain of ODI cricket team of India. BCCI’s hasty decision in this regard has considerably annoyed Virat Kohli.
Virat Kohli was one of the most successful captains of Indian cricket team. Under his able and efficient leadership qualities, Indian cricket test team won the test cricket series against Australia, England and Sri Lanka.
Virat Kohli was an outstanding captain of Indian cricket team and he is arguably the best batsmen in the world.
Virat Kohli’s achievements in the international cricket:-
- Scored six double centuries as a captain in test matches.
- Scored maximum number of 150+ scores as a cricket test captain – Total 9 times.
- He was the first cricket player in the world to hit consecutive 3 centuries against two opponents such as West Indies and Sri Lanka.
- He was the first Indian cricket player to cross 10,000 T20 runs.
- He is the only batsman in the world to have an average of 50 plus runs in all formats of the international cricket.
- Scored 70 international hundreds that is the second highest number of International centuries.
- He is the fastest cricket player in the world to reach 9000 international runs from 194 innings.
- He is the only cricket captain to score 1460 runs in a year that is the highest ODI runs in a year.
- He is the fastest batsman to reach 1000 runs from 27 innings in T20 International cricket.
- He is the first batsman to score three double tons in two consecutive years in Test cricket.
- He is the first captain to score six ODI centuries in one day international cricket in a calendar year.
- Scored 13 ODI centuries that is the most number of ODI centuries taken as a captain of Indian cricket team.
Under his able and efficient leadership, Under-19 Indian cricket team won the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup from Malaysia.
Virat Kohli has been maintaining his fitness level in a better manner that helps him to contribute as much as he can to win the matches.
Soon after becoming the captain of Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli was always leading from the front, displaying excellent leadership qualities, batting and fielding talent.
As his fielding is much better, he is arguably one of the best fielders in the world.
Virat Kohli always focusses on motivating his teammates and encouraging them to contribute as much as they can for the team.
Virat Kohli is a consistent batsmen in the world and he contributed lot for towards Indian cricket team.
His excellent batting techniques, footwork, confident mindset, stable head and the firm wrists are his major batting arsenal.
He was an aggressive captain and his combative attitude immensely helped him to lead Indian cricket team in a better manner.