A win towards Bangladesh within the first Check of the upcoming two-match collection will convey a historic second for India. If Rohit Sharma & Co handle to place it throughout the guests, India’s wins in Check cricket will outumber the defeats for the primary time ever.
India have up to now performed 579 Assessments. The wins and losses from these matches are at present tied at 178 every, whereas 222 matches ended as attracts and one was tied.
A victory in Chennai will make it 179 wins and 178 defeats for India in red-ball cricket.
The particular achievement within the offing makes one flip the pages of Indian cricket historical past backwards in an effort to investigate when the pattern began to vary.
Termed as ‘lions at residence, lambs overseas’ previously, India had a dismal report abroad, which saved the variety of defeats greater than wins.
Trying on the Check captaincy statistics of Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, a comparatively honest evaluation could be gauged via comparability of the information of Dhoni and Kohli, who have been on the helm of India’s Check group for the longest length.
Earlier than the flip of the century and for a brief interval after that as nicely, the win-loss ratio for India in Assessments was closely in favour of the losses.
Whereas Rahul Dravid stays the final India captain to win a Check collection in England (2007), the noticeable constant enchancment in India’s efficiency in red-ball matches, each at residence and abroad, began beneath Dhoni and went a notch greater beneath Kohli. Nevertheless, Rohit Sharma’s win proportion (62.5%) in 16 Assessments as captain is the best.
But when the comparability benchmark have been to be set at 60 matches, then solely Dhoni and Kohli come beneath that bracket. Dhoni turned the Check captain in 2008 whereas Kohli took over in the direction of the tip of 2014.
Azharuddin is third in that listing with 47 Assessments as captain.
* Mohammad Azharuddin – 47 Assessments (14 wins)
* Sourav Ganguly – 28 Assessments (11 wins)
* MS Dhoni – 60 Assessments (27 wins)
* Virat Kohli – 67 Assessments (40 wins)
* Rohit Sharma – 16 Assessments (9 wins)
The above numbers give readability on the place India began profitable extra typically in Check cricket. What Dhoni began beneath his management, Virat took ahead, together with India’s first Check collection win on Australian soil.
So the influence was clearly throughout Kohli’s captaincy, regardless that his win proportion in Assessments (58.82%) stays behind Rohit’s (62.5%).
That apart, Virat ushered the pattern of profitable Check matches with tempo assaults that put India’s Check aspirations and influence on a distinct pedestal.
Technically, if any captain single-handedly modified India’s picture of traditionally counting on a spin-heavy assault, it was Virat’s choice to place collectively a tempo battery (alongside former coach Ravi Shastri) that modified issues ceaselessly.
So, no catalyst served Indian cricket higher than the choice to usher within the fast-bowling pattern. And that credit score solely lies with Virat so far as India’s Check captaincy is worried.
India have up to now performed 579 Assessments. The wins and losses from these matches are at present tied at 178 every, whereas 222 matches ended as attracts and one was tied.
A victory in Chennai will make it 179 wins and 178 defeats for India in red-ball cricket.
The particular achievement within the offing makes one flip the pages of Indian cricket historical past backwards in an effort to investigate when the pattern began to vary.
Termed as ‘lions at residence, lambs overseas’ previously, India had a dismal report abroad, which saved the variety of defeats greater than wins.
Trying on the Check captaincy statistics of Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli, a comparatively honest evaluation could be gauged via comparability of the information of Dhoni and Kohli, who have been on the helm of India’s Check group for the longest length.
Earlier than the flip of the century and for a brief interval after that as nicely, the win-loss ratio for India in Assessments was closely in favour of the losses.
Whereas Rahul Dravid stays the final India captain to win a Check collection in England (2007), the noticeable constant enchancment in India’s efficiency in red-ball matches, each at residence and abroad, began beneath Dhoni and went a notch greater beneath Kohli. Nevertheless, Rohit Sharma’s win proportion (62.5%) in 16 Assessments as captain is the best.
But when the comparability benchmark have been to be set at 60 matches, then solely Dhoni and Kohli come beneath that bracket. Dhoni turned the Check captain in 2008 whereas Kohli took over in the direction of the tip of 2014.
Azharuddin is third in that listing with 47 Assessments as captain.
* Mohammad Azharuddin – 47 Assessments (14 wins)
* Sourav Ganguly – 28 Assessments (11 wins)
* MS Dhoni – 60 Assessments (27 wins)
* Virat Kohli – 67 Assessments (40 wins)
* Rohit Sharma – 16 Assessments (9 wins)
The above numbers give readability on the place India began profitable extra typically in Check cricket. What Dhoni began beneath his management, Virat took ahead, together with India’s first Check collection win on Australian soil.
So the influence was clearly throughout Kohli’s captaincy, regardless that his win proportion in Assessments (58.82%) stays behind Rohit’s (62.5%).
That apart, Virat ushered the pattern of profitable Check matches with tempo assaults that put India’s Check aspirations and influence on a distinct pedestal.
Technically, if any captain single-handedly modified India’s picture of traditionally counting on a spin-heavy assault, it was Virat’s choice to place collectively a tempo battery (alongside former coach Ravi Shastri) that modified issues ceaselessly.
So, no catalyst served Indian cricket higher than the choice to usher within the fast-bowling pattern. And that credit score solely lies with Virat so far as India’s Check captaincy is worried.
