New Delhi: Team India's campaign in the tournament has come to an end after winning the match against Namibia in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Dubai. While this was India's final match in the T20 World Cup, also Virat Kohli's last match as captain. It was also the last match of Indian cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri as a coach. India won the match by 9 wickets.
Mentions that Virat Kohli got the captaincy of India's Test team after Dhoni suddenly retired. Team India toured Australia in 2014-15. Kohli was alternatively given the responsibility of captaincy for the first time. Kohli had hinted at his aggressive stance by achieving an impossible target. After two more Test matches under Dhoni's captaincy at that time, Kohli was beginning to appear in the form. Dhoni then bid farewell to Test cricket and with that Team India got a new captain. Since then, Kohli's era in Indian Test cricket has begun.
Virat Kohli has played a total of 49 matches in T20 cricket so far as captain, out of which India has won 29 matches, while have lost 16 matches, the remaining five matches were cancelled, tied or drawn for some reason. Captain Virat Kohli's winning average in T20 cricket has been 63 per cent. It is also a great achievement that Under Kohli's captaincy, Team India remained number one in Tests for 42 consecutive months. Earlier, India had not topped the Test for so long under the leadership of any captain. Kohli is also the highest Indian batsman to score the most double centuries in Test cricket, having scored 7 double centuries in Tests. Not only that, Virat has scored 4,968 runs in 51 Tests at an average of 63.69. Who holds the record for most runs in Tests as Indian captain.
Virat Kohli's performance as captain has been excellent, but Virat Kohli's luck in terms of titles has not been that good. Team India, led by Virat Kohli, failed to reach the final of the ICC World Cup and now the T20 World Cup. At the same time, Virat Kohli only failed in many other big matches. But captain Kohli will always be remembered for filling new aggression in Team India and sometimes giving the country a chance to celebrate victory.
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