India’s Test captain Virat Kohli has resigned from the post after India lost 1-2 to South Africa in the three-match series. Kohli wrote in an emotional note that he wants to give his 120 per cent as captain, and if he cannot do that, it is better to quit. His sudden decision took everyone by surprise. Many on social media accused the BCCI of putting so much pressure on the captain that he was forced to step down from the Test captaincy. Earlier in September, Kohli had also resigned from the T20 captaincy of the Indian team, after which he was sacked as ODI captain by the BCCI.
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Meanwhile, former Pakistan captain Salman Butt said that the excitement he got after reading Kohli’s Twitter post convinced him that Kohli is definitely under pressure. “After reading his note on Twitter, I thought he had a lot in common. And it’s not the age when a player goes, “Okay, I’m done. Somebody else please handle this. He still has 5 years to go and it’s not like he is giving up cricket all at once,” he said on his YouTube channel.
“I have a feeling that everything is not smooth within the set-up. One of the other reasons could be the absence of like-mindedness. There was the organizational structure, with Ravi Shastri present and his team working like a machine with Kohli. (Now that they’re gone), I think there’s also a problem with compatibility and when that happens, everything else matters,” Butt explained.
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The news of Kohli stepping down as Test captain through his own tweet came as a shock to the cricket fraternity and the sequence of announcing his resignation as T20 captain late last year and stripped of the ODI reins from him. Followed when the Board of Control for Cricket in India stripped him of the ODI reins. In India (BCCI) Rohit Sharma was announced as the ODI captain for the tour of South Africa, which eventually went to KL Rahul as the holder of three double centuries in the 50-over format did not recover in time for the ODIs in Rainbow. Get it The country is starting from January 19.
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