While Slamming Rohit Sharma, Vaughan says India miss Kohli's captaincy massively
According to former English skipper Michael Vaughan, who believes Rohit Sharma completely “switched off” during the game, the Indian cricket team wouldn’t have lost the Hyderabad Test to England if Virat Kohli was their captain.
In a dominant position after taking a 190-run first-inning lead, a Kohli-less India collapsed to a shocking 28-run defeat in spin-friendly conditions, handing England a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.
Kohli missed the opening match and will also sit out the second Test in Visakhapatnam due to personal reasons.
Vaughan said on the YouTube channel, “They missed Virat Kohli’s captaincy massively in Test cricket. Under Virat’s captaincy that week, India wouldn’t have lost the game.”
Vaughan was critical of Rohit’s leadership during the game.
“Rohit is a legend and a great player. But I felt he just switched off completely.”
Vaughan had also slammed Rohit for not being proactive during the series opener, as he said, “I thought Rohit Sharma’s captaincy was very, very average. I thought he was so reactive; I don’t think he maneuvered his field or was proactive with his bowling changes.
Vaughan had written in his column, “And he didn’t have any answer to Ollie Pope’s sweeps or reverse sweeps.”