A month from being India captain for the first time in a T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli has said it would also be the last time he leads the country in the shortest format. Kohli’s not quitting any format but it still feels like he is going the other way, meaning he will have led India to one Champions Trophy (2017), one World Cup (2019) and one T20 World Cup (2021). That is considerably less than Dhoni’s remarkable tally of ICC tournaments as captains: the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 World Cup, 2013 Champions Trophy, the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 World T20—three of them being successful campaigns. The more reasonable and respectable approach thus would have been to allow Kohli to remain Test captain with Sharma assuming the other captaincy responsibilities. This T20 World Cup was to be the first time Kohli could have asserted his mettle as captain without Dhoni.

Source: Hindustan Times September 16, 2021 18:00 UTC