In 2022, Virat Kohli resigned from India’s captaincy position shaking the cricket world like by no means earlier than. Now in 2024, India misplaced a house recreation towards England in Hyderabad with loads of fingers getting raised in direction of the decision of Kohli no extra because the Test skipper. Nevertheless, former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra’s submit from 2021 about lacking Kohli as captain goes viral in the meanwhile.
Virat Kohli confronted intense scrutiny following India’s 2019 World Cup exit within the semi-finals towards New Zealand. Critics closely focused Kohli’s management abilities within the aftermath. Unjustly, Kohli turned the scapegoat for India’s lack of ICC trophies throughout his captaincy. (Jasprit Bumrah Punished By ICC For ‘Inappropriate’ Physical Contact With Ollie Pope During Hyderabad Test)
“I have a feeling that in a few years time we will miss Kohli-the captain. All those who are criticising his leadership skills now will appreciate and admire his tactical genius…,” learn the Post
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I’ve a sense that in just a few years time we’ll miss Kohli-the captain. All those that are criticising his management abilities now will respect and admire his tactical geniu
 Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 11, 2021
Additionally, the demanding schedule of worldwide cricket took a toll on Kohli, main him to step down as T20 captain in 2021. Subsequently, he was eliminated because the captain of the ODI crew, because the BCCI aimed to nominate a single chief for the white-ball codecs.
India head coach Rahul Dravid felt India’s mistake throughout the 28-run defeat to England within the opening Test was leaving runs on the sphere within the first innings and never capitalising on good begins.
After India’s spinners pressured England to succumb to 246, Yashasvi Jaiswal (80), KL Rahul (86) and Ravindra Jadeja (87) guided India to a huge complete of 436.
All three batters regarded poised to an enormous time on discipline, however finally fell brief. Dravid emphasised on this truth within the post-match press convention and mentioned, “I thought we left probably 70 runs on the board in the first innings. You know, I think in our first innings, when conditions were pretty good to bat in on day two, I thought in the kinds of situations we got ourselves into, some good starts and we didn’t really capitalise.”
“We didn’t get a hundred, you know, we didn’t get somebody getting a really big hundred for us. So, in some ways, in India, I just felt we left those 70, 80 runs back in the hut in the first innings. Second innings is always going to be challenging. It’s one of those things that, you know, it’s tough. It’s not easy to chase 230 or it’s not done very often,” Dravid added.
Dravid went on to state that the present Test set-up options lots of younger gamers, who’re nonetheless studying the artwork of taking part in lengthy innings. (World Test Championship 2023-25 Points Table: India Dented Heavily On WTC Standings After Suffering Loss In 1st Test)
“A lot of players are quite young, in the sense that a lot of these guys do play a lot of white-ball cricket and also maybe don’t get a lot of time to get to play a lot of first-class cricket as well. So they’re learning and I think they’re getting there. To be fair, there have been challenging wickets as well over the last few years. And it’s been a bit of a challenge for some of our young batsmen to adapt. But they’ve got the skill and they’ve got the ability, and they’ve not come here just like that; they’ve come here by scoring a lot of runs in domestic cricket, doing well in A-team cricket. So, you know, they are being picked on merit,” Dravid mentioned.
“Sometimes it does take time for people to adjust. They’re working really hard. I will say that, I mean, there’s a lot of thought going into a lot of their batting and for them… it’s just a question of them looking to constantly keep improving and developing skills that maybe help them counter these kind of conditions a little bit better,” Dravid added.
For the previous three days, India had been in full management of the Test and dominated the guests. But on Day 3, Ollie Pope stepped onto the crease and altered the complete complexion of the sport along with his reverse sweeps.
He not solely disregarded India’s 190-run lead however went on at hand England a goal that may very well be defended on a tough floor along with his knock of 196.
“I haven’t seen a better exhibition of sweeping and reverse sweeping [than Ollie Pope] ever in these conditions against that quality of bowling. Having said that, for us now, it’s important that we respond and come up with some plans and some strategies and see how we can maybe make him play those shots from probably even more difficult lengths and be even more disciplined and even more meticulous with our execution,” Dravid mentioned.
“Because, I thought a little bit our execution went off. Not by much. Credit to him, but we were a little bit off and hopefully in the next Test match, if we get our execution right, then I hope he makes a mistake,” Dravid added. India will face England within the second Test on February 2 on the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Andhra Pradesh. (With ANI inputs)
