टेस्ट में रोहित और धोनी से बेहतर कप्तान थे कोहली: घर में कभी सीरीज नहीं हारे, ऑस्ट्रेलिया को उसके घर में दी मात

Rohit Sharma and Mahendra Singh Dhoni are the captains who have won the ICC trophy for India. On the other side is Virat Kohli. He could never win an ICC tournament as captain. But when the discussion is about Test cricket, as a leader he appears miles ahead of both Dhoni and Rohit.

Today Virat has turned 36 years old. On this occasion, let us know what heights he touched in red ball cricket and why his captaincy exploits remain an example even today.

Won all 11 series at home Under the captaincy of both Dhoni and Rohit, India had to face defeat in the Test series at home. Under the captaincy of Rohit, Team India has recently had to face a clean sweep from New Zealand. This never happened under Kohli’s captaincy. He captained Team India in 11 Test series on Indian soil. India won all 11 series.

Kohli captained the team for the first time at home against South Africa in 2015. With the support of Ashwin and Jadeja and Kohli’s attacking field strategy, India won the 4-Test series 3-0. From here, under the captaincy of Kohli, the team won all the test series at home.

Lost only 2 home tests in 7 years Under Kohli’s captaincy, foreign teams also considered drawing a Test in India as an achievement. Under his captaincy, India lost only 2 Tests in 7 years, one against Australia in 2017 and the other against England in 2021. Under the captaincy of Kohli, there were 5 Test draws in India, in which most of the times the weather favored the foreign teams.

Leave alone a clean sweep, Kohli has never suffered a series defeat on home ground. In contrast, Kohli made clean sweeps at home against New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies and Bangladesh. Team India had defeated New Zealand in 2 test series under his captaincy.

Won 16 tests abroad After becoming the full-time captain, Kohli drew the fourth Test against Australia in Sydney. India lost the series 2-0. After this, in 2018, under the captaincy of Kohli, India played any Test in SENA countries i.e. South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia. Where India won 7 tests.

Meanwhile, India played the remaining Tests in Asia and West Indies. Under his captaincy, Kohli played 13 Tests in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and West Indies and won 9. Here the team lost only 1 match, while 3 tests were drawn, rain spoiled India’s work in all three. These also include 2 clean sweeps.

Defeated Australia in the series, stunned England Kohli also led Team India to win 2 test series in SENA countries. Not only this, a series in England also played a 2-2 draw. Even won 2 tests in strong South Africa. Kohli is the Asian captain who has won the most 7 tests among SENA countries.

Kohli led India to a series win in Australia for the first time in 2018. Kohli started his Test captaincy career in Australia 5 years ago. In 2021, Team India, created by Kohli, won the second consecutive Test series in Australia under the captaincy of Rahane. Kohli could play only 1 test of the series due to personal reasons.

In 2021, Kohli also came close to defeating England in the Test series. India was leading 2-1 in the first 4 matches of the 5 Test series. The fifth Test was held in 2022 due to the Corona epidemic, but by then Kohli had left the captaincy. Under the captaincy of Jasprit Bumrah, India lost the fifth Test and the series was drawn 2-2.

Kohli’s Test captaincy is also very big because he taught India to win Tests and series abroad. Before him, if Team India won even one test in SENA, it was considered an achievement. Even before winning the series for the first time in Australia, India had lost 8 series.

Suffered the only clean sweep in New Zealand Team India, captained by Virat Kohli, was also worst hit by New Zealand. New Zealand defeated India in the final of the World Test Championship in 2021. Before that in 2020, the team had also lost 2-0 against New Zealand at their home.

Apart from this, India did not face a clean sweep in any other Test series in Kohli’s captaincy career. Apart from this, under the captaincy of Kohli, India won at least one Test in all the series of 2 or more Tests.

Dhoni’s record abroad does not match Kohli’s MS Dhoni was India’s second most successful captain after Virat. Under his captaincy, India won 27 out of 60 Tests. He could lead India to victory only 6 times in 30 tests abroad, but he kept India on top at home.

Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India defeated Australia in 8 consecutive tests at home. Dhoni’s worst tour was in SENA countries, where he could win only 3 tests. In 2011 and 2012, the team lost 8 consecutive tests against England and Australia. Dhoni lost the same number of 14 tests as Kohli in SENA countries, but could not win as many tests as him.

Rohit is far away from Virat’s record Rohit Sharma started playing Test in 2013. After his debut, India played 112 Tests, out of which Rohit could play only 64 matches. The reason was that he was bad in the foreign tests. He started performing abroad from 2021 and established himself in the Test team.

As soon as he secured his place in the Test team, the problem for Rohit was that Virat left the captaincy in January 2022. He was forced to do Test captaincy along with T-20 and ODI. The result was that India lost 5 home tests in 3 years. India has suffered a clean sweep of 3-0 for the first time in its Test history.

The question is also whether Rohit is really a very bad Test captain? The answer is no, they have won the Test series against England and they have won 12 out of 21 tests so far. However, due to 5 defeats at home, he has definitely become India’s worst Test captain in the 21st century.

Kohli also scored 7 double centuries under captaincy Although batsman Virat Kohli gave his best performance in the presence of every captain, but when he himself became the captain, he converted all the shortcomings of Test batting into achievements. Kohli scored a record 7 double centuries under his captaincy.

Kohli could not do much with the bat during the England tour in 2014, but in 2018 he turned it around and became the top run scorer of the series. In Australia, he scores runs every time, he also scored a century in South Africa and explained why the ICC chose him as the best cricketer of the decade in 2020. Kohli is currently India’s fourth top run scorer.

Kohli is also the best ODI player of the decade ICC had also given Virat Kohli the Best Cricketer and Best ODI Player award. Even after his debut in 2008, Virat still remains the top ODI player. By scoring his 50th century in the 2023 World Cup, he had left behind Sachin Tendulkar’s record of most ODI centuries.

Virat is close to 14 thousand runs and next year he can become the player to reach this record in the fewest innings. He is also the highest scorer of 765 runs in an ODI World Cup. He is also called Chase Master in ODI, he has the maximum number of 27 centuries while chasing the target.

Played his best innings in the last T20 Virat Kohli has retired from T20 International, but in the last match of his career, he achieved that feat with the help of which India ended the drought of winning the ICC Trophy. Virat had played an inning of 76 runs in the T-20 World Cup final against South Africa in June this year, taking India to 176 runs.

India again won this final by 7 runs on the basis of excellent fast bowling. Virat received the Player of the Match award for scoring 76 runs, after which he decided to retire from this format in Internationals. He has the record of scoring the highest number of 4188 runs in 125 T20s after Rohit Sharma. He is also the top run scorer of IPL.