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India cricket star Virat Kohli’s form has been one of the biggest talking points in world cricket right now. Several former players have shared their views on the matter – while some have suggested he should be dropped from the Indian cricket team, many current greats of the game, including Rohit Sharma, Babar Azam, Jos […]

The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) decision to rest Virat Kohli from the Indian cricket team’s upcoming tour of the West Indies has not gone well with former national selector Sarandeep Singh. Sarandeep Singh has slammed both the Indian cricket board and Virat Kohli, questioning why a player who has been woefully […]

Kapil Dev has added fuel to the fire over Virat Kohli’s “rest” from India’s upcoming tour of the West Indies where the Rohit Sharma-led side is set to participate in three ODIs and five T20Is. The official word from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is that the star batter has been […]

Virat Kohli’s lack of form with the bat seemed to have become a national obsession with almost everyone in the country voicing their opinion on the matter. While several former India cricketers have voiced their concerns about Virat Kohli’s lean patch, a few of them, including Kapil Dev, Wasim Jaffer, Ajay Jadeja, Karsan Ghavri, and […]

Former India pacer Ashish Nehra has come out in support of beleaguered Virat Kohli after several former cricketers, including the legendary Kapil Dev, voiced their opposition to his inclusion in the national T20 team. Virat Kohli’s rut with the bat has shown no sign of ending. He last made a century in any form of […]

India captain Rohit Sharma has taken a dig at all those “experts”, including the legendary Kapil Dev, who have raised questions over Virat Kohli’s spot in the national T20 team. Virat Kohli failed to find his lost touch in the just-concluded T20I series against England as he could only register scores of 1 and 11 […]

A video of India all-rounder Hardik Pandya abusing star batter and former skipper Virat Kohli is going viral on Twitter. While the viral clip doesn’t directly show the Gujarat-born cricketer abusing Virat Kohli, the audio indicated that he was furious at a fielder who was fielding in the deep. The incident happened during the second […]

Virat Kohli’s childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma has lashed out at Kapil Dev after the 1983 World Cup-winning skipper called for his ward’s exclusion from India’s T20 team. Rajkumar Sharma coached Virat Kohli during his formative years in the West Delhi area of the national capital. According to Rajkumar Sharma, the legendary captain’s remarks were unnecessary, […]

The chorus for Virat Kohli’s ouster from India’s T20 side is growing with each passing day. First, it was Wasim Jaffer and Karsan Ghavri, and then it was the legendary Kapil Dev, who raised questions about continuing with Virat Kohli in the T20Is despite the Delhi-born cricketer being woefully out of form. On Saturday, another […]

Supporters of two Indian cricket legends – Virat Kohli and Kapil Dev took pot shots at each other after the 1983 World Cup-winning captain called for the Delhi-born cricketer’s sacking from the national team. The war of words between the fans of Virat Kohli and Kapil Dev escalated further after the 33-year-old cricketer failed once […]

There’s something seriously wrong with Virat Kohli’s batting at the moment. After all, imagining a player who used to make centuries for fun, struggling to even reach double digits in international cricket would have been difficult for anyone a year ago. On Saturday, Virat Kohli went on to disappoint his legion of supporters yet again […]

Virat Kohli made a return to India’s T20I side on Saturday but failed to make any kind of impact with the bat. The former India captain fell for 1 with England fast bowler Richard Gleeson delivering a double-wicket maiden in the seventh over of the Indian essay in the second T20I in Birmingham. Gleeson’s other […]

Virat Kohli may have done great service to the nation, having made more than 23,000 runs in international cricket. But calls for his exclusion from India’s T20 side have been growing louder by the day with the legendary captain Kapil Dev latest to join the chorus for his ouster from Team India in the shortest […]

When he is at the peak of his prowess, it is a delight to watch Rohit Sharma bat. The India captain is possibly the most elegant batter in the sport. There’s a reason why Rohit Sharma is called the modern-day David Gower.  A few years ago, the England great had himself praised the stylish batter […]

It has been 89 innings across cricket’s three formats, a stretch of 951 days, since Virat Kohli last made a century. The wait for his 71st hundred seems to have become eternal. Remarkably, scoring a ton was once a habit for him as he reached three figures every seventh time he went out to bat. […]

Virat Kohli’s form has been one of the biggest talking points in Indian cricket as “King Kohli” has faltered at every juncture in the last two and a half years. Virat Kohli’s last century in any format of the game came way back in November 2019 in a Test match against Bangladesh in Kolkata. Since […]

Legendary India captain Kapil Dev has come out in support of Arjun Tendulkar, the son of the great Sachin Tendulkar after Mumbai Indians (MI) coach Shane Bond’s recent comments about the 22-year-old cricketer created some kind of furore in the cricket-crazy nation. Shane Bond, the bowling coach of five-time Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Mumbai […]