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Talk about Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli — they have contrasting styles while sharing a common factor today. That is to hit the cricket ball with aggression. As the Indian captain, Rohit has understood his role very well. That is to play for the team. Hit or get out. But when it comes to Viirat, he has picked up a strange habit of not giving up at crucial junctures when he is supposed to strike the ball.
This attitude of Kohli may hurt India in the World Cup.
When Virat gets to a flying start to his innings and then slows down after the first power-play, a trend in this IPL as an opener for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, it is because of his unwillingness to throw his wicket away. He is Brand Virat, King Kohli. He can’t waste the opportunity to score big runs.
In other words, Virat becomes so brand-conscious that he doesn’t want to throw his wicket away after getting good starts. In comparison, Rohit doesn’t give a damn. His policy is team before the individual. The best part of the story is that Rohit propagates in his team.
Rohit also needs to be complimented the way he handled Kohli in the team. Rohit became captain at a time when Kohli was struggling to score big runs. Still, the Indian captain reposed faith in Kohli. The team management waited for Kohli to strike form while others played around the Delhi superstar when he was cracking centuries one after the other in the 2023 World Cup at home.
Kudos to Indian coach Rahul Dravid for keeping the sanctity of the team intact at all times. Otherwise, who knows what could have happened?
Meanwhile, a unfazed Rohit kept playing some great knocks as an opener with an aggressive intent to build a solid foundation for his team. It worked miraculously for the Indian team. Rohit and Virat played contrasting roles to see India remaining unbeaten till the final of the 2023 World Cup in Ahmedabad.
Now that both the stalwarts of Indian cricket Where is Kohli getting it wrong in T20?have reached the end of their career in T20 and are almost forcibly ready to play the T20 World Cup in the US and the Caribbean islands, all eyes will be on these two legends of modern eras.
Most certainly. Rohit won’t shed his natural style of hitting the white ball by sending the opponent bowlers on a leather hunt. The main challenge for India will be to see how Kohli would shed his inhibition of being a star. Have the Indian selectors discussed Kohli’s role with him in the T20 World Cup?
In the last T20 World Cup, the team management gave clear instructions to Kohli to pace up the innings, but the man didn’t listen to anyone. He played his own game, and before anything else could happen, he played a breathtaking innings against Pakistan in Melbourne. That was it. Kohli was untouchable.
So, at any given point in time, if Kohli struggles to hit the ball, he should forcefully try to smack the ball instead of wasting deliveries, which Rohit doesn’t do at all
