Shortly after leaving the T20 and ODI captaincy, Virat Kohli resigned as India’s Test captain. Virat Kohli resigns as Test captain Virat hinted at stepping down as captain after posting on social media after the 2-1 series loss against South Africa. Shortly afterwards, a tweet from the BCCI confirmed Virat’s resignation.
Shortly after leaving the T20 and ODI captaincy, Virat Kohli resigned as India’s Test captain. Someone looked back and praised Kohli. The Indian cricket team under him has done better, which is coming up in the analysis. However, many are also criticizing Kohli for giving up the leadership of all the editions one after the other.
Former Indian cricketer and now popular commentator Sanjay Manjrekar has also spoken in a very critical tone about Kohli. In his eyes, Kohli has done a lot to save his back. In other words, he was removed from the Test captaincy before anyone removed him. Manjrekar seems to have run away from Kohli as soon as he was under pressure for the captaincy.
How Kohli lost everything in five months in the trial of captaincy! Some have been taken away from him and some have been decided by Kohli himself. Five months ago, Kohli was the captain of India’s three-edition team as well as his franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.
But in the latest IPL, Kohli announced his resignatio
n from the captaincy of Bangalore, as well as India’s captaincy of the T20 team after the T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in October-November.
It’s not that he’s too old, he cut his 33rd birthday cake three months ago. But Kohli then cited the fact that both the IPL franchise and the national team were relinquishing their responsibilities in the smaller edition of cricket, citing the simultaneous leadership of the three editions of the Indian team and the IPL.
Until then, however, the decision seemed reasonable. New guests have arrived in the family of Kohli and his Bollywood actress wife Anushka Sharma. Kohli may want to reduce the pressure of the captaincy!
But after the T20 World Cup, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) removed Kohli from the ODI captaincy. Rohit Sharma, who captained the Twenty20 team to replace Kohli, is also taking over the captaincy of India’s ODIs, the team that just concluded the tour of South Africa said in a statement. Kohli had the Test captaincy in his hands, which he gave up after losing 2-1 in a three-Test series in South Africa.
Is it just the pressure or Kohli’s one-on-one captaincy in India after the T20 World Cup when he left the post with the help of his former coach Ravi Shastri? Or with the Indian board, he does not match the board president Sourav Ganguly? Rumors of his conflict with Rohit Sharma have been in the news for three years. All in all, only Kohli knows the real reason behind his decision to step down one by one. However, the discussion does not stop from around!
In the eyes of Manjrekar on the cricket-related website Cricinfo, Kohli’s decision to save his back was, “In a very short time, one decision after another has come.” Besides the white ball, he has also given up the captaincy of IPL. That too was unexpected. Interestingly, however, the decision to step down from the captaincy of these three editions came one after the other in such a short time! I think he wants to save himself from being fired from the captaincy. Whenever he thinks his captaincy is going to be under pressure, he moves on. ‘
Manjrekar also tried to analyze from his own thoughts what could be the catalyst behind Kohli’s decision, saying, “The atmosphere around Kohli that has helped him to play like himself for so long, to spread the light (of the Indian team) is changing. Anil Kumble was uncomfortable after becoming the coach. But after the arrival of Shastri and his assistant coaches, he (Kohli) was relieved. The new coach (Rahul Dravid) is no longer Ravi Shastri. He (Kohli) probably got a hint of what kind of help he was going to get from the new coach. ‘
Apart from this, the role of Saurabh’s board in the BCCI and his own bat seem to have influenced Kohli’s decision, said Manjrekar. It’s clear, he looks like someone who can’t be comfortable. From a personal point of view, his batting is not in the best condition now. All in all, such announcements are coming. He is not in good condition at the moment. And everyone understands that these decisions actually come from emotions. ‘
As it turned out, Kohli’s announcement confirmed the end of the most successful Test captaincy in Indian history. In red ball cricket, Kohli has led India in eight matches and won 40 of them. Under him, India has lost 16 Tests.
