Virat Kohli lags far behind in white-ball captaincy: Vaughan | Cricket News – Times of India

New Delhi: Former England cricketer Michael Vaughan They say Virat Kohli White-ball cricket has come “a long way short” of captaincy and given that he is such a motivated player, he himself will assess his nine-year captaincy stint Royal Challengers Bangalore as a “failure”.
The 32-year-old announced last month that he would step down as the Indian T20 captain. world Cup And two days later he said that he would also leave the leadership role at RCB after the current season.

Vaughan told ‘Cricbuzz’, “You have to say and to be honest, for the national team and the Royal Challengers Bangalore, he has lagged behind in one-day cricket and T20.”

He said, “The talent and team they have to work with is the best out there. The RCB team has been very heavy with the batting over the years.

“This year with the quality of (Glenn) Maxwell and . Harshal Patel And Chahal, they had the bowling to match the batting, and yet they fell short.”

Kohli’s tenure as RCB captain ended with a four-wicket loss Kolkata Knight Riders Monday at Eliminator.
“His legacy as captain in IPL cricket will be the one he didn’t win.”

“That’s it. High level play is about going beyond limits, winning trophies, especially when you are at Virat Kohli’s level.
“I am certainly not saying that he is, but he would see himself as a failure in IPL captaincy because he is such a motivated player and person because he doesn’t have that trophy in his hands,” Vaughan said.
The former England captain said that Kohli is doing a fantastic job leading the Indian Test team.
“What Virat is doing with the Test team and Test match cricket, developing the Indian team, is fantastic.”

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