New Delhi: The 1983 World Cup-winning Indian captain Kapil Dev has made a statement about Virat Kohli's game and his place in the team, which can be a controversy. In fact, Kapil has even talked about taking Kohli out of India's T20 team. Kapil Dev has said that according to reality, now such a situation has become such that now the selectors may be forced to sit on the bench by removing Kohli from the playing-11 of India's T20 match. Kapil also gave the example of star spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.

In fact, Kapil Dev while talking to the media said, "Yes, now the situation has become such that you may be forced to drop Virat Kohli from the final XI of the T20 matches. If you can have World No.2 bowler Ravichandran Ashwin out in a Test match, the World No.1 can also sit out.'' Kapil Dev said, "I just want Virat Kohli to score runs. But right now, he is not playing as Virat Kohli, whom we know. Who made their name in the world. If Kohli can't perform, you can't keep those best-performing boys out.''

At the moment, Team India's bench strength is very strong. The team also has players like KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Dinesh Karthik, Deepak Hooda, and Venkatesh Iyer in line. Kapil Dev has said, "I want young players to have a sweet fight. Kohli also has to think that I was a big player at one point of time, but now I have to come back and become No. 1. With so many options, the final XI should be chosen keeping in mind the current form.''

Let us know that Virat Kohli has not scored a century in the last two and a half years in all three formats of international cricket (Test, ODI, T20). He had scored the last century in a day-night Test against Bangladesh in November 2019. At that time, Kohli had scored 136 runs in this Test played in Kolkata. In the recent Edgbaston Test against New Zealand, Kohli could score only 31 (11+20) runs.

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