Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli is one of the most successful captains of Team India in all the formats of the game. Especially, when it comes to the longest format of the game, Kohli is undoubtedly India’s most successful captains.
Kohli led the Test team from 2014 to 2022 and made it a mighty force. Under the leadership of Kohli, India won several bilateral series in different countries, however, under his leadership India failed to win any major trophy.
Virat Kohli – India’s Most Successful Test Captain
It was under his captaincy that India won their first-ever Test on Australian soil in 2018-19. He is also credited for making India’s pace bowling attack lethal, which is one of the reason’s behind India’s spectacular performance in SENA countries.
Notably, with 40 wins from 68 games, Kohli is the fourth most successful captain In Test history.
Recently, in an interview, the former Indian captain stated that he is not ashamed of accepting that he made mistakes during his tenure. Speaking in the PUMA’s Let There Be Sport documentary series, Kohli said:
“Hundred percent. So I have no shame in accepting that I have made many mistakes when I was the captain. But the one thing I know, for sure that I never did anything for my own selfish motives that I can take guarantee of that from the one to the last day. I have not done anything for myself. I just had one goal to take the team ahead,”
He added: “I can totally accept if I have taken the decisions correctly or not. I can totally accept it you make mistakes like you make errors when you get out, that’s a failure. Failures will keep happening but the intent was never in the wrong place. So I can absolutely take guarantee of that. Till that is in its right place, you will make mistakes, but you will learn from that as I said, you will not then start shining away from making things,”
Kohli further said that he has learnt a lot from his mistakes during his captaincy period. He said:
“My intentions were always right. The ways I said you had to tweak according to individuals. Many times decisions have been wrong, but these things teach you a lot. Then you start taking it as the whole journey and what went well, but then go right and then you learn from all situations so that’s exactly what happened,”
Kohli stepped down from the Test captaincy in anuary 2022 after a 1-2 series loss against South Africa.
