If Ashwin has been able, despite being thus unofficially classified as someone who must make his own way, to roll on for so long with distinction, that is proof enough he is useful to the team. They'd dropped him rather bullheadedly on the England tour ~ the cornerstone of Kohli's selection policy having been to snub Ashwin ~ and that left you trying to guess how much the Tamil Nadu man had missed in terms of his haul of wickets.
January 23, 2022Successful sports persons keep striving for spectacular achievements not just because they want more claps, but they also refuse to let up because they want to be endorsed for a continued validity of skills, power, and endurance.
January 16, 2022Kohli was impervious to criticism: the more we poked fun at him, the harder became his resolve to leave the off-spinner out of the action. And you can’t really do anything if your captain is getting it wrong at the expense of the team, other than suffer in diplomatic silence.
January 1, 2022Kohli shared an emotional message on the official YouTube channel of RCB, saying his best with RCB is yet to come
December 1, 2021The melodramatic, even distorted conclusion may have left him with fewer loyalists in the bargain too, because few people had not seen through the falsifying, hyper-dramatised doings of the day of denouement when Test cricket was spurned and Twenty20 embraced.
October 2, 2021As much a case of “hit wicket” as slamming Indian cricket’s superstars “for a six” is the letter from noted historian Ramachandra Guha resigning from the Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed by the apex court to excise the spectre of corruption, nepotism, misgovernance etc from the money-spinning game that has been an integral part of …
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June 3, 2017Ganguly complimented Kohli by comparing him with Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar.
March 2, 2017Indian skipper Virat Kohli has said that his team isn t reading too much into the newly acquired number one ranking in the longest format as they prepare to take on West Indies in the fourth and final Test starting here tomorrow. The visitors need to win the match to maintain their current spot, in …
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August 17, 2016