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Gautam Gambhir said that Virat Kohli should not be compared to Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni and Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma as both of them have won the Indian Premier League (IPL) title three times.
Former India skipper Gautam Gambhir believes that Virat Kohli should be grateful that Royal Challengers Bangalore have decided to stick with him in spite of their disappointing results.
Gambhir said that Kohli should not be compared to Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni and Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma as both of them have won the Indian Premier League (IPL) title three times.
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“Still a long way to go. I don’t see him as a shoot captain or a tactful captain. And he hasn’t won the IPL. So ultimately a captain is only as good as his record till the time you don’t win the IPL. There are people who have won the trophy three times - MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma. So I think he has a long way to go. You cannot compare him to someone like Rohit or Dhoni at this stage because he has been part of RCB and captaining RCB for the last seven to eight years and he has been very lucky and should rather thank the franchise that they stuck to him because not many captains have got such a long run where they haven’t won a tournament,” Gambhir said on Star Sports’ analysis show ahead of IPL 2019.
Kohli has led RCB in 96 matches and his team has won 44 out of these encounters with 45.83%.
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Wrong decisions were the reasons due to which the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) did not win even a single Indian Premier League (IPL) title in all seasons so far, said Virat Kohli in Bangalore on Saturday.
“If you take wrong decisions, then you will lose. Our decision making was not good in big games. When the team’s decision making is balanced, those teams have won in the IPL,” Kohli said.
