After India’s derogatory exit from the group stages of the 2021 T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli ended his rule as an Indian captain. Soon, BCCI decided to remove him from ODI captaincy, as it marked Rohit Sharma’s appointment as India’s White-Ball captain.
Under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy with the Indian side, he has a favorable results of his name, as well as many ICC titles.
Meanwhile, speaking on Ashwin’s YouTube show, Varun Chakraborty said that Rohit is one Strategic talent and Virat Kohli are an inspiring captain.
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“Virat is a true leader. When you see him, when you just see what he is doing and you would have seen the match against Pakistan, then you were also there. We lost two wickets before Shaheen Shah Afridi.
“Therefore Virat is extraordinary, as he can please everyone. So the main thing was that whenever I spoke to him, his answers were very inspiring and in that thing and when I spoke to Rohit Sharma, it was very strategic. So it was two different parts,” he said.
Rohit Sharma’s success in ICC tournament as captain
Virat Kohli captured the captaincy of the Indian White-Ball Paksha after leaving the post after the Indian team left the post after the Indian team’s harsh performance in the 2021 T20 World Cup. Sharma, who was an experienced in favor, took the captain’s band.
Rohit can be called the Master of White-Ball Captain, as he is also the captain of the second most successful Indian white ball after MS Dhoni.
After leading India at the 2023 ICC ODI World Cup, Rohit Sharma helped India to pursue unbeaten people in the final of the competition. In the final, Rohit Sharma’s men lost the match to the Australians on their soil.
However, after this, he took him to the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, where India was captained by Rohit Sharma, and he proceeded to an unbeaten final before defeating Protease in a neck encounter to claim India’s second ICC T20 World Cup title. Subsequently, he led India to another ICC title in less than a year, as India removed the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 after defeating New Zealand in the final.
Virat Kohli- revolutionary test captain for India
Virat Kohli took over as the Indian Test captain after MS Dhoni retired from the longest format of the game. In 2014/15, India Tour of Australia marked the beginning of Virat Kohli’s captaincy in the longest time.
Virat took over as the captain of the Indian Test side, as he scored 600 runs in a series in the twin centuries in Adelaide, one of his favorite Arenas in world cricket. Post it, Kohli hit his best Prime with the bat; From 2016 to 2019, he scored an average of 66.79 runs with 16 centuries and 10 half -centuries. They also have 7 double-bundles, the most by a test skipper.
By the time Virat Kohli took over as the captain of the Indian test side, India was ranked 8th in the ICC Test rankings. However, it was during Virat’s reign that India got the status of number 1-ranked Indian testing side. Under them, India has played 68 Test matches, of which they have managed to win 40 games.
He remains India’s most successful test captain and only Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting and Graeme Smith’s choice has won more as a Test skipper.
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Ravichandran Ashwin has played both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli under the captaincy.
Ravichandran Ashwin is one of the very few players who have scored 3000+ runs along with taking 500+ wickets in the longest format of the game.
He has played under both Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma during his captaincy. Ashwin announced his retirement in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024, while Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli recently declared their test retirement before the start of the series against England.
Ravi Ashwin has supported the claim made by Varun Chakravardhi at his YouTube talk show on the captaincy of two mythological Indian skipers.
“So one is inspiring, the other is another strategic, which I echo. Because he goes Virat and does things. He is in your eyes line, the way he trains, the way he practices, what he does.
But Rohit understands a lot of strategy what he does. Everything is strategic in terms of field placement, this batsman, this shot and all that, ”said the former Indian spinner.
