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‘King Kohli ki popularity ka koi jawab nahi hai’ – Fans react as MSK Prasad says Virat Kohli should be given India captaincy again

Rohit Sharma is the current all-format captain for India.

Jul 10, 2023 4:56 pm

MSK Prasad and Virat Kohli (Source:Twitter)

MSK Prasad and Virat Kohli (Source:Twitter)

As India gear up to face the West Indies in a two-match Test series, there are still questions doing the rounds in Indian cricket with regard to Indian captaincy. Rohit Sharma took over the captaincy from Virat Kohli across all formats after the 2021 T20 World Cup debacle. Under Rohit, India won a Test series at home against Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy that was held in March. But the Men in Blue lost the World Test Championship (WTC) final under him.

Speaking on Indian captaincy, former India selector MSK Prasad said that Kohli should be given the Test captaincy if an opportunity arises. “I don’t know if I can answer this question. I don’t know the mindset of the selectors. Usually, the mindset of the selectors should be now with the WTC cycle it should be a clear cycle, that’s how the mindset should be,” Prasad was quoted as saying by Khel Now.

I don’t know whether selectors are thinking beyond Rohit: MSK Prasad

Indian cricket is also at a transition phase as the team management has to find and groom a younger captain in place of Rohit Sharma. Rohit is 36 years old and he is not going to get any younger. “Why not Virat Kohli? When Ajinkya Rahane can come back and become the vice-captain, then why not Virat Kohli? I don’t know what the mindset of Virat is on captaincy. In case selectors are thinking beyond Rohit, I don’t know whether they are thinking but if they are thinking beyond Rohit, then I think Virat can also be an option”. Prasad added.

The next biggest task for Indian cricket would be a home ODI World Cup in 2023. The Men in Blue have not won a World event since 2013 when they won the Champions Trophy under MS Dhoni. India is hosting the World Cup on home soil for the first time since 2011. Rohit will want to make a statement and bring home the cup in front of loyal home fans who have been waiting for World Cup glory once again since 2011.

Let us take a look at the reactions on Twitter:

It's not musical chairs game

— Manideep (@MaNi66925884) July 10, 2023

Save test cricket again
Give captaincy to kohli

— Levi (@Goaxt7) July 10, 2023

Naa msk prasad wapis Chief selector banaega
Naa kohli wapis captain banega.

— Aashish Jain🇮🇳 (@ashish_jain108) July 10, 2023

He is right. There is no one better than virat to handle test captaincy at present!!

— Ashu (@sic_mundus__) July 10, 2023

Honestly that's not a bad shout have Kohli captain the test side and have Pandya captain the white ball side

— Muqtada Hameed (@muqihameed) July 10, 2023

Ajinkya is better captain in abroad.. as we have seen in last Aussie tour that Kohli lost first match with all top players and later ajinkya Just changed the outcome by winning series with C team..

— manish sharma (@manishs51061143) July 10, 2023

Virat Kohli was the best test captain after Sourav Ganguly. He gave confidence to the faster bowlers, gave them opportunities, and built a team. Whereas Dhoni was the worst test captain.

— Ratnakar Yadav (@thebeliever84) July 10, 2023

Even now nothing has gone wrong. Just sack Rohit Sharma from Captaincy and give it back to Virat Kohli as an honour of mistakenly sacking him from the Captaincy regime.

— Sharon Solomon (@BSharan_6) July 10, 2023

First of all it's not about giving
Virat Kohli left the captaincy, so before even thinking about giving first you need to know whether or not he wants to lead or not
If yes, then only you can discuss

— Jatin Aggarwal (@techiejatin) July 10, 2023