Indian head coach Ravi Shastri feels Kohli has a lot to learn as captain and he is still evolving. Speaking to Cricbuzz, he praised Virat Kohli for outsmarting Australia in Australia but believes there is always room for improvement.
“As far as I am concerned, tactically, there is still room for plenty of improvement as captain. He has gotten better and better, and better, and I thought in the Australian Test series, tactically he outsmarted Australia. I still see more room across formats for him to evolve. As a captain, Virat will evolve further,” Shastri told Cricbuzz.
He also said Virat Kohli winning all the ICC awards is a rare occurrence and he don’t think anyone will ever do it again.
“Starting with the ICC awards (achieving all awards in the same year), I don’t think anyone will ever do it again. It is something very rare because you need two things to happen to win all awards in a single year. You need to be a captain of a very good cricket team across formats, that allows you to win two awards as the best captain of the ICC Test team and the ICC ODI team. So obviously your team is one of the best in the world and it has never happened in Indian cricket before. So an Indian captain gets it, and I want to focus on those two awards more than the personal awards that he has won.
“You will not get a repeat of that in these two biggest formats of the game. And there is no award for ICC T20 captain. So your team has to be that good that you can win those awards. Whether we get accolades from our guys back home or international media, I give two hoots. When my captain wins those two awards, that’s a tribute to the team. So the boys can be at peace. And Virat knows it,” he said.