Virat Kohli / Not losing to South Africa, is this the real reason for Virat Kohli to leave the captaincy? Discussion of rift with grandfather

Virat Kohli resigned as the Test captain of Team India a day after losing the Test series to South Africa. South Africa defeated India by 7 wickets in the Cape Town Test to take the Test series 2-1.

After Dhoni's resignation, Virat became the Test captain of Team India in 2015. His resignation comes at a time when the BCCI had removed him from the captaincy of ODIs just a month ago. Earlier in September last year, Kohli surprised everyone by announcing that he would quit the T20 captaincy. This decision of Kohli has surprised both the fans and the cricket experts.

Let's know what is the reason for Virat Kohli suddenly leaving the Test captaincy? Is the dispute with BCCI and rift with Rohit the reason? How was Kohli's record as a captain?

Is the Kohli vs Ganguly controversy the reason for this?

The day after Virat stepped down from the post of Test captaincy, 'Dada', ie Sourav Ganguly, continued to trend on top on Twitter. Some fans were blaming Sourav Ganguly for leaving Kohli's captaincy, while many fans were praising Ganguly for the fact that he reined in Kohli's alleged dictatorship.

It is believed that the issue of Kohli vs Dada has been involved somewhere in this entire controversy. Its hallmark was visible in December last year when the Ganguly-led BCCI snatched the ODI command from Kohli and gave it to Rohit Sharma.

Was Virat hurt by being dropped from ODI captaincy?

Some experts believe that Virat was definitely hurt by the manner in which BCCI took away the command of ODIs from him. There were public differences between Kohli and BCCI President Sourav Ganguly regarding this decision.

Ganguly had said that he had appealed to Kohli not to give up the T20 captaincy, but he did not agree. In such a situation, BCCI had no option but to remove him from the ODI captaincy, as he did not want to have a separate captain for ODIs and T20s.

Later, Kohli surprised everyone by saying that the BCCI had not discussed him with the captaincy and the information about his removal from the ODI captaincy was given only 90 minutes before the meeting of his selection in the Test team for the tour of South Africa. Was.

Ganguly told personal decision to leave Kohli's captaincy

On Kohli's decision to step down as Test captain, Ganguly called it his personal decision and said that BCCI respects it. Also, the BCCI thanked Kohli for his contribution, describing him as the most successful Indian captain.

Madan Lal, who was a part of India's 1983 World Cup winning team, says he is shocked by Kohli's decision to step down from Test captaincy. He believes that Virat was very angry about being removed from the ODI captaincy.

According to media reports, Kohli had already made up his mind to leave the Test captaincy and even if India had won the series against South Africa, Kohli would have left the captaincy.

Did Kohli and Ganguly really meet?

According to the PTI report, Kohli had a meeting with BCCI President Sourav Ganguly, Secretary Jay Shah, the five selectors before leaving the T20 captaincy. Rohit Sharma was also present in that meeting.

When Kohli later said that his decision to step down from T20 captaincy was accepted by all, he was referring to this meeting. It was the same meeting, in reference to which Ganguly later said that he had appealed to Kohli not to give up the T20 captaincy.

According to this report, Kohli had advocated for KL Rahul to be made the vice-captain in ODIs and Rohit to be made the only T20 captain in this meeting, but this advice was immediately rejected by the BCCI, as it meant Rohit was not entitled. Despite this, he would have missed the ODI captaincy.

In all this exercise, Kohli had no idea that the BCCI could take away the ODI captaincy from him, but eventually it happened. It was difficult for a player of Kohli's stature to digest it.

How did Ganguly and Kohli's differences start?

There was a clear communication gap between Kohli and Ganguly in this entire matter. The rift between Kohli and Dada begins in 2016, when Anil Kumble became the coach of Team India instead of Ravi Shastri on Ganguly's wish, but a year later, Kumble resigned due to differences with Kohli.

In 2017, once again the issue of coach was in discussion, but this time despite Ganguly's wish, Kohli's wish followed and Ravi Shastri became the coach of Team India. The relationship between Shastri and Ganguly was never good, so Dada did not like this appointment.

Now that Ganguly took over the reins of BCCI and Ravi Shastri's tenure came to an end, differences emerged between Dada and Kohli on the issue of captaincy.

Kohli left T20 captaincy, Dada removed him from ODI captaincy and now Kohli himself has said goodbye to Test captaincy.

There were also reports of differences with Rohit.

There have been reports of differences between Kohli and Rohit for the past several years, but the gap seemed to widen in December last year when Kohli lost the ODI captaincy to Rohit Sharma.

However, this was not the first time that the Rohit-Kohli controversy made headlines. In many media reports, it was even claimed that the rift between Kohli and Rohit was also one of the main reasons for Team India's defeat in the 2019 World Cup.

At that time, Team India had reportedly played in the Rohit and Kohli camp and their journey ended in the semi-finals itself.

However, before leaving for the South Africa tour, there was an alleged conversation with Rohit.

Kohli had also dismissed Bun's news saying, "There is no problem between me and Rohit. I have been clarifying about this for the last two-and-a-half years and I am tired now.

Kohli left the captaincy because of batting not controversy?

Even though most experts feel that Kohli has left the captaincy due to some differences or controversy, but one reason is his batting. Kohli's form has declined in the last two years.

It has been more than 26 months since he scored his last century. It is believed that by saying goodbye to captaincy, Kohli now wants to focus his full attention on batting. The reason for leaving the T20 captaincy was also told by Kohli to focus on batting in view of the Test and 2023 ODI World Cup.

Let's take a look at how Kohli's performance has declined in the last two years:

• The batsman who has scored 70 centuries in international cricket has not been able to score a single century in the last two years.
• Kohli made his last century in international cricket with a score of 136 against Bangladesh on 23 November 2019.
• Since his last century, Kohli has scored 760 runs in the last 27 Test innings at an average of 28.14. During this, he has scored 6 half-centuries, but did not score a single century.
• During this, Kohli has scored 705 runs in 15 ODI innings at an average of 47. He has scored 8 half-centuries in ODIs, but has not been able to score a single century.
• At the same time, Virat has scored 777 runs in 20 T20 innings at an average of 38.80. During this he has scored 7 half-centuries.
• During the last two years, Kohli's average in all three formats of Test, ODI and T20 has been much lower than his overall career.
• In his international career, Kohli has scored 7962 runs in 99 Tests at an average of 50.39 with 27 centuries/28 half-centuries. He has scored 12169 runs in 254 ODIs at an average of 59.07 with 43 centuries, 62 half-centuries.
• Virat has scored 3227 runs in 95 T20Is, including 29 half-centuries, while his average is 52.04.

Virat Kohli was India's most successful Test captain

Under the Test captaincy of Virat Kohli, Team India achieved new heights and achieved tremendous success not only in the country but also abroad.

He is the most successful Test captain in the country and the fourth most successful Test captain in the world. Kohli's success graph as captain has been higher than even MS Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly.

Kohli was the Test captain of India for seven years (2015-2022). Virat Kohli captained India in 68 Test matches, out of which Team India won 40 Tests, while it lost 17, 11 Test matches were drawn.

The flag of success waved even on foreign soil

• The special thing is that under the captaincy of Kohli, India won 16 out of 36 Test matches on foreign soil. Kohli is at number four in the world in terms of most Test wins. Only Graeme Smith, Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh have won more Tests than him.
• Virat is the first captain not only from India but also from Asia to win a Test series in Australia. He is the third captain in the world and the first in Asia to register a win at the Centurion ground in South Africa.
• Under Kohli's captaincy, India won Test series in Sri Lanka in 2015, West Indies in 2016, Sri Lanka in 2017, Australia in 2018-19 and West Indies in 2019.
• Under Kohl's captaincy, Team India topped the ICC Test rankings for 42 months (October 2016 to March 2020).
• Virat Kohli is the only player in the world to score seven double centuries as Test captain, while his 20 centuries as Test captain is the most after Graeme Smith (28).