Sunday, 15 April 2012

Virat Kohli--- The Next Big Thing

Hi Cricket Lovers,

As promised i am writing about Virat Kohli who has become the next big thing in Indian Cricket. While so many Indian fans were waiting for Sachin's 100th Century he was accumulating tons after tons and became the fastest player to score 10 ODI centuries in just 80 innings (84th Match).Off late, He has become the most consistent Indian Batsmen and even risen up the ICC ranking to join MS Dhoni in the Top 10.

Virat Made his debut for India in 2008 versus Sri Lanka and soon showed that he had a temperament of becoming a good batsmen. Virat has played a big role in India's rise in the ODI status and was a very important member of the team when India won the world cup in 2011.

Virat along with Gambhir has been the two prominent names in recent times when it comes to chasing down a big total. Who can forget the World Cup final when Gambhir scored the Match winning ninety and who can forget the recent 100's from Virat when India needed to score 320 within 40 overs to stand a chance of reaching the VB series final and the Mammoth 183 he made against the Pakistanis when India chased down a huge target of 330 with overs to spare.

Virat's performance down under was so good that the Indian Selectors rewarded him the vice captaincy for the Asia Cup where he showed his class by outperforming other batsmen an finishing as highest run scorer of the tournament. This show he can take additional responsibilities at such a young age of 23 years.

I think he has a good  future ahead as long as he keeps his head down and concentrate just on cricket and not worry about anything else.My prediction for Virat is long as MS Dhoni is Captains India he will be his deputy and can take over the reign once MSD retires from ODI cricket. Virat needs some more time to establish himself as a Test Player for India but he has showed a great character in the Aussie tour by being the only centurion in the test series that he has a potential. I hope he becomes one of the greatest cricketers of all time.

IPL is on but has not shown much promise till now. Will try to write on some IPL related topic soon if  this IPL 5 starts showing some promise.

Till then Bye

Cheers!!!