Time to groom Kohli as captain
January 22, 2012 | Cricket
It’s easy to pick up a guitar and twang the cords, easy to sit down at a piano and pound on the keys. Both instruments will produce sounds, but to produce the composition you desire, a lyrical tune, is something else. For that, the right key needs to be pressed and the right chords strummed at the right time. And that only comes with having a sense for music, combined with training and thorough practice. Indian cricket needs a similar train of thought to find its next captain.
Under MS Dhoni, India have lost seven successive overseas Tests. The hullabaloo for his head is splitting eardrums, but the thought is filled more with emotion than logic.
Kohli – captain of the victorious Indian team at the Under-19 World Cup in 2008 and part of India’s World Cup triumph last year – has made steady strides through the ranks, before he raised his Test credentials to a different level during the ‘Perthquake’ India suffered recently.
From: Cricket Next
