Virat Kohli has announced that he will stand down as the captain of the Indian cricket team in T20 Internationals after ICC T20 World Cup 2021, know his captaincy record
In 2017, Virat Kohli took over as captain in the limited environment after MS Dhoni decided to step down. Kohli would be leading India in the ICC T20 World Cup for the first time this year. Kohli took the team to the final of the Champions Trophy in the same year, i.e., 2017, and then to the semis in the World Cup of 2019. He led the team to the finals of the World Test Championship.
Virat Kohli took to Twitter and Instagram to share the news with his fans. Twitter went berserk after hearing the news. There were speculations about the split captaincy, but the talks were stated as rumors by the BCCI officials as mere rumors. It might also be an excellent tactic which we all will know in the future.
Virat Kohli Captaincy Record In T20 Internationals
Virat is the country’s second-highest run-scorer in world cricket as a T20 captain with 1502 runs, just behind Australia’s Aaron Finch with 1589 runs. Kohli was the quickest captain to collect 1000 T20I runs, doing it in just 30 innings. He is the second most successful captain for India as he got 27 T20I wins for India behind the legend himself, MS Dhoni, with 42 wins. He is ranked 4th for most T20I wins as skipper for a nation.
Virat is the only Indian skipper to win a T20 series in all SENA countries
Virat as T20I captain of India, has;
- T20 Series in ENG (2-1)
- T20 Series in NZ (4-0)
- T20 Series in AUS (2-1)
- T20 Series in SA (2-1)
- T20 Series in SL (1-0)
- T20 Series in WI (3-0)
Reason For Letting Go Of The Captainship
The reason for this decision was that he wanted to rest from the hectic schedule as captain to focus more on the captaincy of ODI and Test teams. He said that understanding workload is important, and he was heavily under a lot of pressure regularly captaining for 5-6 years.
Virat will still captain the RCB side in IPL and lead the One Day Internationals and Test squads in later matches. Kohli will step aside from the captaincy right after the T20 World Cup of 2021 in the UAE.
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