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Kohli

Leading role

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.

Captain Complacent

Successful 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.

Ups, downs

Kohli 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.

Tide turns

The 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.