Virat Kohli‘s admiration for former India captain MS Dhoni is a secret to none. Their camaraderie usually used to develop into the discuss of the city when Dhoni was part of the Indian staff. Kohli, who had made his worldwide debut beneath Dhoni’s captaincy in 2008, then went on to guide Team India. Dhoni handed over his Test captaincy to Kohli in 2014, after having determined to retire from the longest format of the sport. However, former India fielding coach R Sridhar has recalled how Kohli was fairly desperate to develop into the white-ball captain as effectively.
“There was a time in 2016 when Virat was very eager to be the captain of the white-ball team too. He said a few things that showed he was looking for the captaincy,” Sridhar revealed the element in his new e-book, ‘Coaching Beyond- My days with the Indian cricket staff’, which is written by R Kaushik.
Sridhar additionally revealed how the then India head coach Ravi Shastri intervened into the matter, and advised Kohli to attend for Dhoni at hand him the white-ball mantle.
“One evening, Ravi called him and said, ‘Look, Virat, MS gave it (the captaincy) to you in red-ball cricket. You have to respect him. He will give it to you in limited-overs cricket, too, when the time is right. Unless you respect him now, tomorrow when you are the captain, you won’t get the respect from your team. Respect him now, irrespective of what is going on. It will come to you, you don’t have to run behind it’,” he added.
Notably, Kohli grew to become India’s all-format captain in 2017. Not solely did Dhoni handed him the mantle, but in addition performed beneath Kohli’s captaincy for a number of years.
Dhoni ultimately introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket on August 15, 2020.
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