'Hitman' buried under the burden of captaincy! Virat Kohli is at number 1 position in this list

Rohit Sharma: Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma is performing well in ODI and T20 formats. But if we talk about Test cricket, Rohit has not been able to perform anything special. Rohit Sharma has played 20 matches in Test cricket as captain. If the first 20 matches of the players who captained India in the last 50 years are compared, then Rohit Sharma does not even make it to the top-5. During this period, Virat Kohli is at the top in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs.

Rohit Sharma has scored 1194 runs at an average of 35.11 in his first 20 matches as captain in Test cricket. In terms of runs and average, he is at number 7 in this tally. However, Rohit Sharma's performance in Test matches without captaincy has been good. Rohit Sharma has played 43 matches in Test cricket only as a batsman. In which he has scored 3047 runs at an average of 46.87. Looking at these figures, it is clear that Hitman is not capable of carrying the burden of captaincy in Tests.

If we look at the Indian batsmen who scored the most runs as captain in the first 20 Test matches, Virat Kohli's name is at number one in this list. Kohli scored 1861 runs in his first 20 matches at an average of over 60. If we talk about the best average in the first 20 test matches, then Sunil Gavaskar is ahead of Virat Kohli in this list. Gavaskar scored 1816 runs at an average of 62.62 in his first 20 Test matches as captain.