Does Virat Kohli have a chance of captaining India’s T20 World Cup team from the start?

Being the batsman for a state or franchise when one hasn’t done well is one of the numerous difficulties of playing international cricket. If you’d like to play for the national team, you have to be prepared to step outside of your comfort zone and take chances. Fortunately, that is not how Dafabet is.

August marks the sixteenth year that the former captain has played in the league. Little has been done by him in any kind of media. Kohli has also improved as a batsman this rummy gold, especially in light of his body of work and his unwavering desire to do better even at 35.

It is only slim to none for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru to make the playoffs thanks to the talisman. When it was all but impossible for anybody else to get runs save for Dinesh Karthik in the early going, Kohli held his ground. Though they had lost six of their previous eight games and seven of their opening eight, RCB never gave up despite Kohli’s valiant attempts. It was on Thursday against Punjab Kings that he showed off his latest skill, blasting 92 runs off of 47 balls. His genius is still there, even though the other batters are now beginning to connect.

Ruturaj Gaikwad is nearly a century ahead of Kohli in the run-scorers’ rankings with 634 runs, after the player scored 50 or more in six of his 12 innings this season. Kohli is the fourth player to achieve 600 runs in an IPL season. Thanks to batting first, the runs were scored at a notable 153.51 strike rate. Although it is 134.31 in T20, his strike rate in T20I is 138.15.

This all raises the issue of whether, in the T20 World Cup in October, Kohli and skipper Rohit Sharma must bat first.

Even in the shortest format, Kohli has represented the Indian team. That being said, he did, for the first time in his international career, score three goals in the Asia Cup opening match against Afghanistan in September 2022. His 400 runs at 57.14 in nine innings at the top of the order, where he has hit for 135.26 and 3,076 runs at 53.96 in 80 innings, are significantly higher than his strike-rate of 161.29 when batting at No. 3. The right-hander’s argument for moving up the order will be strengthened even further by this.