Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has said that Virat Kohli wrote a new chapter as the Indian team’s Test captain. He added that Kohli is not only India’s most successful captain in the Test format, but also gave the team the winning attitude as well. However, Kohli recently announced his Test retirement as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “I think he wrote a new chapter. He is the most successful Indian Test captain, there is no doubt about that. However, he came up with a doctrine that you will either win or lose. There is no middle path, and he showed that in the first match, the Adelaide match, where he captained for the first time. He said he would play five bowlers. He said he would play Varun Aaron as he bowls at 150 kph and Karn Sharma because leg-spin works there. It wasn’t about right or wrong, but about the thought process, what he needs to do to pick up 20 wickets.”

“It’s okay if you lose, but you need to definitely try to win. I think they were chasing close to 400 in the fourth innings, but he didn’t give up. Till Wriddhiman Saha, he said we would go and wouldn’t bother about losing because luck favors you when you don’t have the fear of defeat in your mind, and he showed that repeatedly,” he further added.

However, Aakash Chopra also credited Virat Kohli for adopting a five-bowler template in Test cricket as well.

“He wrote a new template for India in Test cricket, that we always go with five bowlers. Why do we do that? We didn’t used to do that earlier because draw was okay then. Now we were saying that we will either win or lose. Draw is not okay, and that is Virat Kohli’s contribution,” he said.

“It’s not a coincidence that he became the most successful Test captain. He will be if he has given birth to a new template and taken it forward. So his contribution as a Test captain is absolutely immense for Indian Test cricket and Test cricket in general. He never let you feel that the match was going out of hand because he was always thinking that a bad situation would change. He has walked the talk,” Aakash Chopra concluded.