Veteran India cricketer Virender Sehwag once revealed an incident when he and the then captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni backed Virat Kohli and saved him from falling. Kohli has become India’s biggest match-winner in all three formats in the last decade. The modern-day legend has scored 23.161 runs everywhere in international cricket.
Though Kohli had a sluggish start in Test cricket, he quickly picked up the pace and became one of the best in the business. He has scored 7765 runs in 96 Tests at an astonishing average of 51.09.
It was during the India-England Test series in 2016, when Sehwag shared the interesting story in the commentary box, when he and Dhoni supported Kohli on the 2012 tour of Australia and played him over Rohit Sharma in the Perth Test.
“The selectors wanted to play Rohit Sharma instead of Kohli in Perth in 2012. I was the vice-captain and Dhoni was leading the team, and we decided that we have to support Kohli. The rest is history,” Sehwag said.
India lost that Test by an innings and 37 runs but Kohli lived up to the expectations of the senior players by scoring 44 runs in the first innings and 75 runs in the second innings. The talented batsman didn’t look back after that and scored tons of runs for Team India in the longest format of the game.
Kohli will lead India for the last time in the T20I format on Monday when the Men in Blue take on Namibia in their last match of the 2021 T20 World Cup campaign.
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Recently, Sehwag suggested his choice for the next captain of the Indian team in the shortest format of the game.
Responding to a question from a fan on his Facebook watch show virugiri.com, Sehwag said, “I think there are many candidates for the captaincy but I think Rohit is the best candidate because he has made one for the Mumbai Indians team. Has done well as a leader. IPL. He has won the IPL championship five times. So I think the next T20 captain of Team India should be Rohit Sharma.”
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