IPL 2018: Twitter ridicules Virat Kohli for his captaincy techniques

Virat Kohli took over the Test captaincy from MS Dhoni in 2014 during India’s tour of Australia. Last year, Dhoni decided to pass the baton of leadership in the limited-overs formats to Virat Kohli and his first assignment was when England toured India in January. He has also been a skipper of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League.

Yesterday, he played his 100th game as a skipper of a T20 team, which is pretty substantial as far as experience is concerned. However, major loopholes can still be seen in his leadership techniques, which were also evident during RCBs last game against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, which the Challengers lost after scoring 205 runs.

The poor strategies by Virat Kohli

Corey Anderson, who has bowled occasionally thus far in the T20 format has been entrusted to shoulder the responsibility in the second half of CSKs run chase when they required 116 runs off 54 balls, during which the likes of MS Dhoni and Ambati Rayudu had the license to go hell for leather. He bowled the 12th over and conceded 12 runs. He was thereafter given the ball in the 16th, 18th and 20th over.

By then, Virat Kohli had already exhausted the overs of his premier pacer in the form of Umesh Yadav who churned out a frugal spell in the context of the game. The move turned out to be a disaster and the Kiwi all-rounder conceded 58 runs off 22 balls at a dismal economy of 15.81. He had 16 runs to defend in the final over and he faltered as Bravo and Dhoni finished the game with a couple of balls to spare.

Following RCBs loss, Twitter wasn’t satisfied with how Kohli marshalled his troops. Subsequently, they bashed the Indian and the RCB skipper for his lacklustre standards of captaincy.

Here are the reactions from the fans   

Virat Kohli should also step down as captain of #RCB as Gambhir did for #DD …

— vikas (@VikasVkg) April 26, 2018

@imVkohli why ur not using @MoeenAli he is a good asset in both department u can use him a opening solt and middle over bowling.

— Abdullah (@Abdullah331234) April 26, 2018

@imVkohli #RCB It's better to give ur captaincy to other player so that we can win in upcoming IPL Matches

— Akash Kashmir (@Akash_Kashmir) April 26, 2018

@imVkohli @RCBTweets You just lost one loyal fan. Enough of bullshit.

— chetan (@chetan_sgmath) April 26, 2018

@RCBTweets @imVkohli Did not mention this last month: You got a joker for a bowling coach, hence bowling performance is a joke. Still 8 matches to go, fire should be the call. 3 overs for Negi was silly esp when he seemed shaky in the 1st two. Unimpressive Captancy.

— Deepak (@deepak_nr) April 26, 2018

Still wondering @imVkohli captain ability
– sending Corey Anderson ahead of mandeep
– finishing Umesh spell early
– purpose of grandhome in 11
– death bowler pick
leave about #RCB captain for India itself is a big joke. Really worried about #ICCWC2019 #CSKvRCB #CSK

— Arvindh Srinivasan (@arvindhtweets) April 26, 2018

MSD and Virat Kohli are miles apart in terms of captaincy skills

— DEBASHRITO MUKHERJEE (@debashrito) April 26, 2018

@RCBTweets @imVkohli doesnt learn quickly,if top 5 cant score there is no chance of winning then y batting-allrounders at 6-7 & 8,anyway u have de-kock,virat,abd,mandeep and corey thats enough and enouuuugh!!!!!!! just put quality bowlers and bowlers.

— Roman Sharma Aryal (@roman_aryal) April 26, 2018

I think it is a right time for Virat Kohli to step down as a captain.. Also Daniel Vettori as Coach..

Virat Kohli should concentrate more on his batting rather then captncy

— Sushil Kumar (@SushilK46919379) April 26, 2018

Virat Kohli & Sachin Tendulkar both are good batsman, can bat well but not fit for skipper position.. both cannot be a captain of a team, only good at bat..

Rohit Sharma should lead India in 2019 WC instead of Kohli..

— Sushil Kumar (@SushilK46919379) April 26, 2018

You don't need now to show how sad are u about the match .u just get money to play.but we don't get it but still support u like a die hard fan . But at least u always break our heart. And u just be doing ads and make money Virat Kohli .u can never win an IPL cup for rcb. pic.twitter.com/oDNh4uRibF

— Skhaleel (@Skhaleel17) April 26, 2018

In India 19 people die in every match after seeing your team losing…!!! ?? #RCB #RCBFan

— Utkarsh Dubey ☮️ (@utkarshdubey42) April 26, 2018

Firstly learn captaincy and leave RCB on safer roads.
Secondly Vittory and Nehra is making RCB worse like never before.
And lastly we don't drink and drive. #Nohashtagneeded

— Manjunath T (@emhty_) April 26, 2018