Ricky Ponting In Awe Of Virat Kohli’s “Staggering” Achievements As India’s Check Skipper

Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has phrases of knowledge for Indian skipper Virat Kohli. Ponting was impressed by the best way Kohli led India within the red-ball format earlier than stepping down from Check captaincy. He gained 40 out of 68 video games he led in and ended with a win share of 58.82 – solely behind Steve Waugh, Don Bradman and Ponting himself.

Ricky Ponting termed Kohli’s achievements as “staggering”. Talking to former cricketer Isa Guha on the primary episode of The ICC Evaluate, Ponting defined that India’s efforts beneath Kohli have been extra “staggering” than what Australia achieved beneath his captaincy.

“It was extra of a staggering achievement for India than it was for us. Once I took over, I took over a facet that had dominated world cricket for a very long time,” stated Ponting.

Ponting additional praised Kohli for serving to India win abroad Check matches. It was a pattern that began beneath Sourav Ganguly’s captaincy but it surely achieved a brand new top beneath Virat Kohli.

“If you concentrate on India earlier than Virat, it was about profitable plenty of video games at dwelling and never profitable fairly as many abroad. The factor that improved probably the most was India profitable just a few extra video games abroad, and that’s one thing that he and all the Indian cricket should be actually happy with.”

Ponting added saying that Kohli careworn BCCI to concentrate on Check cricket. he took the Indian crew from the seventh to the highest place within the ICC rankings. India shedding the Check collection towards South Africa noticed them slide down from the highest to the third place on the desk at present.

Virat Kohli Can Be Very Proud Of What He Has Achieved: Ricky Ponting

“The opposite factor is there was actually was an actual focus positioned on Check cricket by the BCCI when Virat took over, and I feel plenty of it has come from him as properly – to focus extra on Check cricket and profitable extra video games dwelling and away. Given his Check document as captain, he can stroll away from the function very, very happy with what he has achieved,” Ponting concluded saying.

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