The pace at which these runs are scored also matters. Rohit has been setting the stage. With Virat, he has slowed down throughout. While Iyer began slowly he has accelerated post settling down. Haven't seen that happen with Kohli.
SR of 90 is adequate when you're scoring 70 runs per innings like he is.
Rohit had 54 RPI and Iyer had 48, because all 3 of them played different roles. Rohit the aggressor. Kohli to bat through the middle overs. Iyer the enforcer/rebuild job.
SR of 90 is adequate when you're scoring 70 runs per innings like he is.
Rohit had 54 RPI and Iyer had 48, because all 3 of them played different roles. Rohit the aggressor. Kohli to bat through the middle overs. Iyer the enforcer/rebuild job.
Rohit had 54 RPI and Iyer had 48, because all 3 of them played different roles. Rohit the aggressor. Kohli to bat through the middle overs. Iyer the enforcer/rebuild job.
Virat has slowed down a lot. His role also demands that he speeds up. Anyhow, the issue at hand was whether I see him in 2027 and the answer is NO. He doesn't deserve it as he will eat up one place of a much deserving candidate. If that person is Dhull, so be it. I don't care about his stat padding in SMAT. If he does that for India, then it is a problem and that can be dealt with.
Yeah yeah, apparently anyone who disagrees with you simply doesn't understand!
Just cause one challenges your opinion doesn't mean you can make statements like 'he doesn't understand'. This is something that you ought to learn as you tend to do this with every member here-notably newer members.
Virat has slowed down a lot. His role also demands that he speeds up. Anyhow, the issue at hand was whether I see him in 2027 and the answer is NO. He doesn't deserve it as he will eat up one place of a much deserving candidate. If that person is Dhull, so be it. I don't care about his stat padding in SMAT. If he does that for India, then it is a problem and that can be dealt with.
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Yeah yeah, apparently anyone who disagrees with you simply doesn't understand!
Just cause one challenges your opinion doesn't mean you can make statements like 'he doesn't understand'. This is something that you ought to learn as you tend to do this with every member here-notably newer members.
If you're claiming that Kohli was selfish after his contributions then you truly don't understand ODI roles, I'm sorry.
Now I wish they had more information out there on how it was calculated but I assume it's not done due to it being proprietary data. Even going beyond that, there's five batters at number three with a SR more than Kohli's. Out of these, Barresi only batted there for one game. The others were Williamson who only played four games, two of which were in Bangalore, MMarsh who has the luxury and role to go ham because Smith and Labuschagne are supposed to follow him up. The other two are Ravindra who had an outstanding tournament in all fairness and Kusal Mendis who was near useless after the first two games like he's always been throughout his career.
Kohli's been more aggressive than Rassie, Root, Babar and Smith. The first three and Mendis are the only ones who have been batting at number three throughout the tournament and seem like logical comparisons. Kohli's scored more on average compared to all of them and has been more aggressive than all of them barring one whose numbers are skewed heavily by two knocks. The only one who's outdone him is the Kiwi duo of Ravindra and Williamson at three.
Do you also think Root was selfish in the 2019 WC because his SR was the lowest among England's top seven (barring the useless Vince who played three games)? Or do you believe that he played his part to perfection and that allowed the others to do their jobs? It's funny how you praise Rohit for being aggressive without realising that maybe Rohit can afford to be aggressive because he knows Kohli can follow it up by not losing his wicket and scoring high consistently. That's how roles in ODI cricket function and if you keep harping on this again and again because he slowed down for a game that was sewn up (which I also called out as being selfish at that stage) in the groups then you truly don't understand roles.
It's so funny that after the world cup when some people were feeling sad for Virat, some other people tried to be don't be sorry for him, be sorry for Rohit Sharma he deserved it. Like what we started gatekeeping who we feel sad for haha
Weird thought just popped in my mind. Unmukt Chand, till this date remains the only Indian captain to have beaten Australia in an ICC even Semi/Final game.
Weird thought just popped in my mind. Unmukt Chand, till this date remains the only Indian captain to have beaten Australia in an ICC event Semi/Final game.
Weird thought just popped in my mind. Unmukt Chand, till this date remains the only Indian captain to have beaten Australia in an ICC even Semi/Final game.
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