Virat Kohli should be among the most prominent cricketers to have played for India. ‘Prominent’ is not a word used frequently in a sporting context. It has more than one element to it, though– impact within the team, and impact on the bigger public outside it.
Numerous players have actually affected one of the groups, but few both. If children in the 1970 s, for instance, went around with thick sideburns and long hair, they were paying a homage to the likes of Farokh Engineer, Tiger Pataudi, B.S. Chandrasekhar, S. Venkatraghavan and Salim Durrani. Bollywood stars and cricketers set the fashion then. When school children walked around with their collars raised, they were hoping to bring in some of M.L. Jaisimha’s wonderful gifts as a batsman, too.
Then came Sunil Gavaskar– his influence was deeper, longer-lasting and often coloured the thinking about an entire nation. More of that later on.
Respecter of the game
When Kohli remained in contention for the leadership role, numerous assumed he would have an unfavorable result. It was easy to make this mistake. It stopped working to take into consideration 2 crucial components in his evolution. One, that his occasional boorish behaviour on the field was available in the days when he was too young to understand much better and two, he was constantly a respecter of the game and it