Dhoni Words Ring True As Rohit Sharma Succeeds Virat Kohli

The Indian team has been announced for the Test series against Sri Lanka. After T20 and ODI, the command of Test team has also been given to Rohit Sharma. After becoming the captain of Rohit in all three formats, Dhoni's seven-year-old thing has proved to be true once again. Dhoni had said that India will have only one captain in all three formats. Here a different captain's formula for each format will not work. After making this statement, Dhoni left the captaincy of the ODI team at the end of 2016 and Virat became the captain of India in all three formats. After almost seven years, Dhoni's words have proved to be true once again. Virat left the T20 captaincy after captaining India in all three formats for a long time. He said that he is doing this to reduce his workload and to focus more in ODI-Test. However, this did not happen. After T20, he was stripped of the ODI captaincy and later he had to give up the Test captaincy as well. Rohit became the captain in all three formats, till November 2021, there was only one captain of the Indian team in all three formats. Virat Kohli was commanding Team India in every format. Rohit became the captain of T20 when Virat left the captaincy in November. In December, he was made the captain of the ODI team and in February he has also got the command of the Test team. Overall, there were two different captains in the Indian team for just two and a half months. Meanwhile, Rahul also captained in four matches, but in the absence of Rohit and Virat, he captained India.

Both captains did not play under each other's captaincy Rohit became the captain of the T20 team in November. Under his captaincy, India played the first T20 series against New Zealand. Virat was not the Test captain in this series, he was rested. After this Rohit was also made the captain of the ODI, but he was injured and did not go for the Africa tour. In this way Rohit did not play under the captaincy of Virat. Virat played in the ODI series but in the absence of Rohit, Rahul took the captaincy. However, even before the ODI series, Virat had also left the Test captaincy.

What did Dhoni say? Dhoni's performance as an ODI captain after relinquishing the captaincy of the Test team was nothing special. India lost the series against South Africa in the ODI and T20 World Cups, with semi-final losses. Dhoni was criticized a lot for this defeat. After this he had said that India cannot have two different captains. Dhoni had said "I don't believe in split captaincy. There should be only one leader in the team." Now once again only one captain has been made in India in all three formats.