Gautam Gambhir Uncovers WHY MS Dhoni Deserves Full Credit for Virat Kohli’s Team India Achievement

Dhoni deserves full credit for Virat Kohli's successful test carrier

Former Team India cricketer Gautam Gambhir has uncovered how MS Dhoni merits a great deal of credit for placing confidence in Virat Kohli during his poor beginning to his profession.

Kohli played his first Test arrangement for India in 2014, against a deadly England side and battled to feature his ability in the longest format of the game.

The right-gave batsman neglected to adjust to the England pacers and figured out how to score just 134 runs in 10 innings with James Anderson dismissing him multiple times in the series.

Notwithstanding the entirety of this, the then Team India captain MS Dhoni stayed with Kohli and put stock in his capacity and quality.

According to Gambhir, that series would have been the finish of Kohli’s Test profession yet because of Dhoni, the now Indian skipper got another chance.

“I agree with Laxman Bhai. The sort of series it was in 2014, even I was there on that tour,” Gambhir said.

“You have to give credit to MS Dhoni because a lot of careers have ended after such a series, especially in one format.”

“But he gave that kind of security to Virat Kohli plus his eagerness,” he added.

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Virat did return the favour to Dhoni and scored 692 runs in eight innings against Australia the following year. Kohli has scored 7240 runs in 86 Tests and is already the sixth-highest run-getter for India in the longest format of the game.

The Indian skipper has so far smashed seven double-centuries – the most by an Indian cricketer – with an average of 53.62.

Virat Kohli Batting and Fielding Stats : 

M I N/O R HS 100’s 50’s 4s 6s Avg S/R Ct St
Test 86 145 10 7240 254* v SA 27 22 811 22 53.62 57.68 82 0
ODI 248 239 39 11867 183 v PAK 43 58 1116 121 59.33 93.25 128 0
World Cup 26 26 4 1030 107 v PAK 2 6 91 5 46.81 86.7 14 0
T20I 82 76 21 2794 94* v WI 0 24 258 76 50.8 138.24 41 0
IPL 177 169 26 5412 113 v KXIP 5 36 480 190 37.84 131.61 73 0
CL 15 14 3 424 84* v NSW 0 2 45 14 38.54 150.35 10 0

 

Virat Kohli Bowling Stats : 

I O M R W Best 3w 5w Avg E/R S/R
Test 11 29.1 2 84 0 0/0 v SA 0 0 2.88
ODI 48 106.5 1 665 4 1/15 v SA 0 0 166.25 6.22 160.25
World Cup 3 3 0 19 0 0/6 v SL 0 0 6.33
T20I 12 24.2 0 198 4 1/13 v ENG 0 0 49.5 8.13 36.5
IPL 26 41.5 0 368 4 2/25 v DCH 0 0 92 8.79 62.75
CL 6 9.3 0 95 0 0/9 v SOM 0 0 10

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