{"id":40666,"date":"2022-01-16T03:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/jan\/15\/virat-kohli-departs-as-indias-test-captain-but-his-legacy-will-live-on"},"modified":"2022-01-16T03:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T18:38:29","slug":"virat-kohli-departs-as-indias-test-captain-but-his-legacy-will-live-on-anand-vasu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40666","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli departs as India\u2019s Test captain but his legacy will live on | Anand Vasu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kohli built a side that could win in Australia and England, with an emphasis on fast bowling that had never been seen before <\/p>\n

Virat Kohli has left the building. India\u2019s most vocal captain, on and off the field, signed off<\/a> from his Test leadership position via social media. A day earlier Kohli had addressed the media after India\u2019s loss <\/a>to South Africa in the Cape Town Test that gave the home team the series 2-1 but did not hint at stepping down. There was no intimation from the Board of Control for Cricket in India, not so much as a tweet or a media release. When he thought the time was right, Kohli called it.<\/p>\n

In his time as Test captain Kohli led India in 68 Tests, winning 40 and losing only 17. Statistically he is India\u2019s most successful captain. Globally, too, he stands tall. Only South Africa\u2019s Graeme Smith (53 wins) and Australia\u2019s Ricky Ponting (48) and Steve Waugh (41) have a better record as skipper.<\/p>\n

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Kohli built a side that could win in Australia and England, with an emphasis on fast bowling that had never been seen before Virat Kohli has left the building. India\u2019s most vocal captain, on and off the field, signed off from his Test leadership positi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[499,62,1858,61,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","category-india","category-india-cricket-team","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40667,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40666\/revisions\/40667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}