Analysis
When Virat Kohli dropped 4 players from ODI Team: Who’s in and Who’s out
MS Dhoni left his legacy as a captain to Virat Kohli in the year 2016. Since then, India prospered in all the formats of the game. Kohli was one of the best captains India has ever produced. After MS Dhoni, he didn’t give the fans a reason to worry about the team even though India couldn’t win a single trophy. However, Virat Kohli dropped four players from the squad during his tenure from 2017 to 2021.
There might be several reasons behind this. As a captain, his job was to focus on the betterment of the team. However, because of these, some potential players got side-lined from the ODI team. Thus, that became a question mark during his captaincy tenure as people failed to understand his decisions.
Let’s talk about the players who were dropped by Virat Kohli from the ODI team.
4. Ravichandran Ashwin:
Ravi Ashwin (Source: X)
Ravichandran Ashwin is still India’s one of the best bowlers in Tests and ODIs. However, the off-spinner was a regular member of the ODI team until he was dropped for the Champions Trophy match against Pakistan in 2017. He did not play another ODI for India until the 2023 World Cup, where he played only one game. He was replaced by younger spinners like Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Axar Patel.
