Virat Kohli Retires from Test Cricket

[ashley bach]

Where does he end up in the rankings? Does he even make the top 30?
Without any doubt whatsoever IMAO the best white ball player of all time almost regardless how he finishes off.

 

[Thala_0710]

Where does he end up in the rankings? Does he even make the top 30?
Without any doubt whatsoever IMAO the best white ball player of all time almost regardless how he finishes off.

Kimber placed him 25th in his book recently...CW had him 29th in last year's poll. So top 30 is basically his range

 

[Kirkut]

Kohli's leadership added extra spice to our pacers.

I remember how Umesh Yadav and Ishant Sharma were instructed to bowl defensive lines under Dhoni as per the field placements most of the time. Then comes Sri Lanka tour of 2015 and Kohli allows his pace-men to express themselves, Sharma and Yadav get hit for runs but also sent stumps flying. 2018-2019 period was when our pace attack became among the best in the world, and this would not have been possible without Kohli.

 

[Athlai]

Ponting like in terms of everything, but just a lower quality

Yeah pretty much - did play in a harder era IMO. I don't consider Ponting a tier above but on a higher end of the same tier.

 

[Kirkut]

Yeah pretty much - did play in a harder era IMO. I don't consider Ponting a tier above but on a higher end of the same tier.

Nopes. You are probably the first kiwi who is underrating Ponting like that.

 

[Molehill]

He was brilliant in 2018

2014: 13
2018: 59
2021/2: 31

It was certainly brilliant compared to his previous efforts. But I'd describe brilliant as Smith 2019.

 

[OverratedSanity]

2014: 13
2018: 59
2021/2: 31

It was certainly brilliant compared to his previous efforts. But I'd describe brilliant as Smith 2019.

Kohli made 600 runs in a series where no one else even reached 350. His 2018 tour was as amazing as his 2014 was dreadful.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah pretty much - did play in a harder era IMO. I don't consider Ponting a tier above but on a higher end of the same tier.

He's pretty far off Ponting level imo. Ultimately a batsman with a technical flaw that glaring and exploitable can't go down as a true all timer.

 

[smash84]

Incredible player at his peak and a wonderful captain as well.

 

[Johan]

Where does he end up in the rankings? Does he even make the top 30?
Without any doubt whatsoever IMAO the best white ball player of all time almost regardless how he finishes off.

I have him around Frank Worrell and Clive Lloyd at this point, until Last year I think there was some hope here but the Australia series squandered it, I don't think he's top 30 or top 35.

 

[trundler]

It is a damn shame slippy isn't around to write an ode to Kholi

 

[subshakerz]

Kohli will be missed.

 

[Ali TT]

Where does he end up in the rankings? Does he even make the top 30?
Without any doubt whatsoever IMAO the best white ball player of all time almost regardless how he finishes off.

This seems high to me. I'd assume Tendulkar, David and Gavaskar as batters, Bumrah and Ashwin as bowlers and Jadeja and KD as all-rounders sit above him at least. Going from corner to country I think you'd quickly find a load that he'd be behind, so probably around top 50 (not scoring for captaincy).

Second worst average of any test player with 30+ centuries.

 

[kevinw]

This seems high to me. I'd assume Tendulkar, David and Gavaskar as batters, Bumrah and Ashwin as bowlers and Jadeja and KD as all-rounders sit above him at least. Going from corner to country I think you'd quickly find a load that he'd be behind, so probably around top 50 (not scoring for captaincy).

Second worst average of any test player with 30+ centuries.

Presumably Chef above him, though he did open in usually worse conditions.

 

[Ali TT]

Presumably Chef above him, though he did open in usually worse conditions.

Yes, and Mahela the only other with a sub-50 average and even then only just (49.84)

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Think he can still figure in a conversation about India's greatest five or so because of just how drastic his decline was and how dominant and nailed-on for ATG status he was before it happened. The separation is so discrete that he's virtually two different players on either side.

 

[sledger]

Being the third best player of an entire generation of batters takes some doing. Good on him.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Great career , well deserved retirement

 

[ma1978]

I'd rate him six for India on test cricket alone behind SRT, KD, SMG, RD, and RA but that's quite an accomplishment. As an overall player, top three after SRT and KD.

 

[Daemon]

Great man, reduced to a meme towards the end. It was painful to watch but I’m glad he isn’t prolonging the suffering any more.