Top 5 players Virat Kohli passed on to Rohit Sharma
During his five-year captaincy stint, Virat Kohli inducted some exceptional talents into the Indian team who are currently serving the side as match-winners under Rohit Sharma's leadership.
1. Rishabh Pant
Rishabh Pant has done a brilliant job as a wicketkeeper batter for India. In Tests, it was his batting display that helped the team vanquish Australia in their backyard for the consecutive second time in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2021. Accumulating 274 runs in three matches of the series, he became the leading run-getter for India in the competition.
Taking up India’s captaincy mantle in white-ball cricket in 2017, Kohli gave a chance to Pant during India’s T20I series against England in February 2017. In the third T20I, the southpaw played as a number six batter. The next year, he broke into ODI and Test teams as well.
Currently, Pant is out of cricketing action after his accident on the Delhi-Dehradun highway in December 2022. In his absence, skipper Rohit has tried Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson in the one-day format but none of the players have been effective as the 25-year-old dashing left-handed batter.
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