Hyderabad : Is Virat Kohli a good captain or he is a captain of a good team ? The controversy continues ... And it will continue till Virat comes up with a concrete answer.
It's true that Team India under the leadership of Kohli completed a hat trick by retaining the mace as the number one test team for three successive years and is doing well in the one dayers as well. In T20s also team India is living upto the expectations .
But ............. when Indian Premier League comes and Virat Kohli takes the field leading Royal Challengers Bengaluru ? The outcome? Loss after loss after loss.
Question arises , " Is Virat Kohli a good captain or is he a captain of good team ?" As a captain of team India , records show , he performs brilliantly and scoring centuries became his habit. Both in the Tests and in the one dayers. In T20s also he performs brilliantly and the team wins. On the contrary , what goes wrong with him at the time of IPL is a multimillion dollar question?
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Yes, it's true that in Team India Kohli has players like Rohit Sharma , Cheteshwar Pujara , his predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah by his side and in IPL apart from A.B , DeVilliers there are practically none but it will be wrong if players like Parthiv Patel , Yezhuvendra Chahal are underestimated.
It's also a fact that when Mitchel Starc was there with RCB , Kohli's boys reached the finals of the IPL only to lose to captain cool Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings.
The answer to this question lies in the fact that it is not about how good player one is,but how much capable one is in holding onto his / her nerves.
In this answer only Mahendra Singh Dhoni went miles ahead. Dhoni , unlike Kohli , has the capabiliy of holding onto his nerves , even in the tence and crucial crucial moments of the game Dhoni see to it in a cool manner.
Virat , on the other hand , finds it a bit tough to handle those crunch situations. Remember 2015 semi final at Sydney vs the Aussies? Chasing 329 to win, Kohli threw his wicket away off after scoring just a single by offering a simple return catch to Mitchel Johnson.
