![]() ![]() I was very respectful of the fact that he has so much trust in me and I can go and talk to him about anything", he added. "I never felt like I should be there (in his place). How he captained the team, and how performed for the team for so long. I always had and will have huge respect for him. Since 2012, I was groomed to be the next guy, who is going to take over. I was thinking about what we can do to break the partnership, how the pitch is behaving, how our bowlers are bowling and things like that. ![]() I never looked at the scoreboard and thought 'these many runs, these many balls'. "I was always going to him if the game was tight. I was never someone who was just standing, throwing the ball back", he said. And also I was giving him a lot of input in the field. He knew I understood where the game was going and what I needed to do. It also helped the fact that I was playing match-winning knocks. I always had conversations with him about what we can do, my suggestions. When you realise that, as someone who was 23, I was always under his wings as vice-captain. "The reality of the situation was MS chose me. During a candid interaction on RCB Podcast, Kohli revealed about his time playing under Dhoni's captaincy and also opened up about their comfortable relationship, which made the transition to his captaincy very easy. Kohli learned the captaincy trade from none other than MS Dhoni, from whom he took over the captaincy, first in red-ball cricket, and then in limited overs format. But since handing over the role to Rohit Sharma, Kohli has once again found his form and also the highest run-scorer in the 2022 T20 World Cup, where India lost to England in the semi-finals.Īlso Read | Watch: Azam Khan's epic gesture for father and opposition coach Moin Khan during 97-run knock in PSL PAK legend reacts In 20, Kohli even saw a drastic dip in form, and then the batter fell victim to criticism continuously. In his final tournament as captain, India failed to even qualify for the knockouts in the 2021 T20 World Cup. Then under his leadership in the 2019 World Cup, India crashed to a semi-final defeat vs New Zealand, followed by a runners-up finish in the 2021 World Test Championship. Under his captaincy, India reached the final of the ICC Champions Trophy in 2017, but lost the final to arch-rivals Pakistan. Despite his greatness, the 34-year-old has come under a lot of criticism especially during his captaincy tenure, where he failed to win a single ICC trophy. Considered to be one of the greatest cricketers in history, Virat Kohli has won matches for India on multiple occasions since making his debut in 2008.
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