Virat Kohli ends his stint as India’s T20 captain with a nine wicket win

Nov 9, 2021 By: Vaamanaa Sethi Credit: BCCL

Virat Kohli played his last T20 match as the captain of the Indian team on Monday against Namibia.

The team did secure a smooth win, but has been knocked out of the on-going T20 World Cup. Credit: BCCL

Kohli will no longer be seen as the captain of India’s T20 International team...

...and Royal Challengers Bangalore club of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Credit: BCCL

He shocked his fans in September this year by stepping down as captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)...

...and then later as captain of the Indian team for T20 Internationals. Credit: BCCL

Kohli, who was the skipper in the T20 format from the last five years,...

...was India’s second most successful captain after MS Dhoni. Credit: BCCL

He ended his captaincy with 30 wins and 16 losses out of 50 matches under his belt.

Not only as captain, he proved to be a very successful batter during his captaincy...

...by scoring the second highest runs by captains in T20I cricket. Ranked after Aaron Finch of Australia, Kohli has a tally of 1570 runs from 47 innings. Credit: BCCL

One black mark is that he failed to secure an ICC T20I World Cup or an IPL championship under his leadership.

Kohli took the captaincy of RCB in 2013 from former spinner Daniel Vettori.

RCB won 62 matches, lost 66 matches and 4 matches ended with no result out of 132 under Kohli’s leadership.

However, the team couldn’t secure a single IPL title under him. Credit: BCCL

He scored 4674 runs as the captain of RCB with a strike rate of 134.11 and an average of 43.27.

Kohli had ended his stint as RCB skipper this year in eliminator round after losing to Kolkata Knight Riders.

India vs Namibia at T20 World Cup: Virat Kohli and team will want to have a fitting goodbye