Dinesh Karthik on Virat Kohli: It has been 16 years since Virat Kohli entered international cricket and this wonderful journey of about one and a half decade has made him one of the greatest players of cricket. Now former Indian wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Karthik, who has played with Kohli, has shared a post on social media, which is making a lot of headlines. In this post, he has called Virat a ‘captain’.
Kohli made his international debut in the form of an ODI match against Sri Lanka on 18 August 2008. Now Dinesh Karthik sent a message to Kohli through X and wrote, “Captain, it was a great pleasure to play with you. 16 years have passed, but the fire inside is still the same.” On the other hand, talking about Karthik, he made his international cricket debut in September 2004 and by the time Kohli came to Team India, he had tasted the 2007 T20 World Cup victory.
Happy to have played with you Skipper🫡
16 years and the fire still burns bright🔥 #16YearsOfViratKohli pic.twitter.com/7gJitDLIK8— DK (@DineshKarthik) August 20, 2024
Virat Kohli’s captaincy record
In December 2014, MS Dhoni retired from Test cricket, after which the captaincy of the long format came into the hands of Virat Kohli. In Kohli’s era, an aggressive Indian team was formed and during this time he captained the Indian team in 68 Test matches, winning 40 times, losing 17 times and 11 matches ended in a draw. A few years later, Kohli was given the captaincy in all three formats.
Apart from this, while leading Team India in 95 matches, he was successful in making India victorious 65 times. Under Kohli’s captaincy, India lost 27 ODI matches and one match was tied. Kohli also captained 50 T20 matches, in which Team India was victorious in 30 matches.
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