Virat Kohli wants to make himself unsackable as captain: Sanjay Manjrekar

As speculations are quite rife for the announcement of the name of the next captain of the Indian Test team, veteran cricketers are conjecturing various reasons for Virat Kohli’s resignation.

Star commentator and former Indian batsman Sanjay Manjrekar while speaking on ESPNCricinfo says that it looks like Kohli wanted to make himself unsackable as captain.

Kohli announced his resignation on January 15, a day after India lost the three-match Test series to South Africa.

Manjrekar said, “I think, in some way, he wants to make himself unsackable as captain. When he gets that vibe that his captaincy is under threat, he tends to quit."

Manjrekar is of the view his resignations come one after the other in a very short span – “giving up the captaincy at RCB and then the white-ball captaincy as well. This also was unexpected, but it is interesting that all these three resignations of important positions have come so quickly one after the other," he said.

Manjrekar also said that Kohli was not comfortable when Anil Kumble was the coach.

“But once Shastri and the support staff came in, he felt comfortable and was able to enjoy his captaincy. The new coach (Rahul Dravid) is no Ravi Shastri. He would have got some inkling of the kind of support he was going to get from him," he said.

He added that Kohli became a person who found himself outside his comfort zone.

“Individually, his batting is not at its best. All that has just added up,” he said