Rohit Sharma is one of those cricketers in Indian cricket, whose captaincy skills came into the limelight in the Indian Premier League. He is one of the successful skippers in IPL history with an astounding win percentage. Recently, he led the team to the perfection against Sunrisers Hyderabad while defending a low tally on the board. Meanwhile, Twitterati wants Virat Kohli to step down from captaincy.
As per the records in the Indian Premier League, Rohit Sharma has done decent enough to lead the team in shorter formats of the game. He already bagged the Nidahas Trophy in his kitty alongside Asia Cup and a couple of bilateral series.
Rohit Sharma has got good IPL numbers:
Meanwhile, the fans want Rohit Sharma to lead the Indian National Cricket Team in place of Virat Kohli for the upcoming ICC World Cup 2019. So far, Virat Kohli led the team in only one ICC event, where they lost to Pakistan in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017.
Coming to Virat Kohli, RCB has seen him rising through the ranks and becoming next to the invincible with his tremendous rise in batting standards. During the course, he also attained the captaincy for his impeccable work with the bat.
But, his captaincy stint with the team hasn’t gone down well. He failed to make things happen for the team, as they are yet to taste the final victory in the tournament. The best that the team had done under his captaincy was in 2016 when they lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final.
Currently, as far as the personal stats are concerned, Virat Kohli lost all the previous nine matches, which he captained. It included three ODI games against Australia and six RCB matches in the ongoing Indian Premier League 2019.
The ongoing edition is the seventh season for Royal Challengers Bangalore under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. On the other hand, the stats of Rohit Sharma are mind-boggling for Mumbai Indians.
Here are a few tweets:
BCCI Should Consider @ImRo45 as Indian Captain For Upcoming World Cup , What a Rotation Of Bowlers , I think MI Pulled So Many Low Scoring Matches ? .. No Offence to Worlds Best Batsman @imVkohli
— Margot Fan ?? RC15 !! (@Yevadu_) April 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/HU554M/status/1114591058183294977
https://twitter.com/AmRajdip/status/1114886837678436353
Virat Kohli lacks leadership qualities. Rohit Sharma should take over after WC2019.
— अंकित जैन (@indiantweeter) March 31, 2019
I mostly watch @mipaltan games compared to the other teams so this might be a bit oblivious but @ImRo45 is a much better captain in T20 than @imVkohli #IPL2019 #RCBvsDC
— alexander_alwis (@alwis_alexander) April 7, 2019
Hope @imVkohli comes out of his power trip and does right by handing over the reigns to @ImRo45. He can focus on this scoring while Rohit thrives best under pressure. @BCCI give it a thought. Virat is exposed as a captain without @msdhoni #IPL2019 #worldcup2019 #CWC2019 https://t.co/1lDwLy0TeF
— Incredible Bulk (@IIncrediblebulk) April 7, 2019
Dear @imVkohli We don't want this kind of campaign & clueless captaincy in #CWC2019
Please resign not only from @RCBTweets but also from Team India's Captaincy?
Let @ImRo45 lead the team for @cricketworldcup & ODIs/T20Is#RCBvDC #gameForGreen #RRvKKR #WC2019 #IPL #IPL2019 pic.twitter.com/vEBMdQhZYJ
— Lokesh Jaiswal (@lokesh0210) April 7, 2019
@BCCI @IPL India need to go with @ImRo45 as captain instead of @imVkohli.
— Jagadish V (@Jagd1shvarma) April 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/vidyadhar_08/status/1115071723102248961
#RohitSharma Hey @BCCI you have to choose @ImRo45 as the captain of @cricketworldcup 2019 @imVkohli is a great batsman no doubt but Rohit should lead @sachin_rt @VVSLaxman281 @SGanguly99 @vikrantgupta73 @anilkumble1074
— Rohan Desai (@rohanmlw) April 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/dinu116/status/1114584341567365120
Hey @BCCI Take this grandpa's advice. @imVkohli is a great batsman but can't make a great captain. Make @ImRo45 as the captain in the view of upcoming #wc19
— Eddy Bean (@eddymbean) April 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/its_srinu/status/1114604034516815873