Best team since Waugh/ Ponting’s Australia?

[Victor Ian]

Is Kohli still captain if India win?

 

[CricAddict]

Is Kohli still captain if India win?

Yes. The Australia series win is credited as a win for Kohli as captain, so I believe same will apply in this case as well.

 

[subshakerz]

There you said it. Case closed then.

I said it before though. They just needed to plug these holes in their record. A victory in either SA or Eng would put it up there with SA, in both would have made it clearly better.

 

[subshakerz]

Yes. The Australia series win is credited as a win for Kohli as captain, so I believe same will apply in this case as well.

By who? It is certainly more contested as you are making it out to be.

 

[subshakerz]

Also, it is a joke that you don`t consider at all the poor SA home record compared to India`s home record and only harp on their respective away performances.

I do consider it. We have discussed this before. It does make the SA record closer to India's.

 

[CricAddict]

By who? It is certainly more contested as you are making it out to be.

You can check any record database, cricinfo, cricbuzz etc. as I do not have access to ICC database and check for series wins by captains. It all has Kohli as the captain for the series win.

 

[subshakerz]

Why you seem unwilling to seriously consider stuff like this in your ratings. You seem hellbent on judging India by a certain standard that isn't applied to South Africa based on faulty logic and I'm wondering why this should be the case and is more logical than other alternatives. Like in order for you personally to accept this Indian side overall you want them to be a rerun of the 80s WI or Waugh/Ponting's Australia without generally considering whether the current environment is conducive enough for a team to dominate to that extent. At a certain point this isn't rational.

I think you have a tendency to exaggerate my points and strawman my arguments.

 

[subshakerz]

You can check any record database, cricinfo, cricbuzz etc. as I do not have access to ICC database and check for series wins by captains. It all has Kohli as the captain for the series win.

Yeah but that team wasnt Kohlis team by the end of the series and Kohli wasnt captain for most of the series. Not sure why he gets credit.

 

[Xix2565]

I think you have a tendency to exaggerate my points and strawman my arguments.

You calling it a strawman doesn't make it one, you know.

 

[Victor Ian]

 

[srbhkshk]

shame.

 

[honestbharani]

There you said it. Case closed then.

Notice how he says "there with". Its always gonna be a new excuse, man and you know it.

 

[_00_deathscar]

To clarify, they dont have to win in all of SA/Eng/NZ, even something like winning in 1-2 and drawing or narrowly losing in the rest is improvement.

So England then - if we draw or win that "5th test" in England you'd consider us the greatest team since Waugh/Ponting's Australia? Good to know.

Looking forward to the new excuse if it happens though. Something about this England side not being all that, probably.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yall just tempting fate. England are going to smash us in the last test in all likelihood. Lost all the momentum by cancelling it.

 

[subshakerz]

Yall just tempting fate. England are going to smash us in the last test in all likelihood. Lost all the momentum by cancelling it.

You called it well.

 

[subshakerz]

Is that a "and" or an "or"? If India wins/draws the final test that will happen in July, India win the series in England. Will you then accept that Kohli`s India is a better team than Smith`s SA?


Or just find a new excuse?

Looks like India couldnt close the deal, and the holes in the record remains.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Stokes' England to be added to the poll please.

 

[Daemon]

Tbf Kohli’s India remains 2-1 in England

 

[TheJediBrah]

Subshakerz been sitting on this thread for months waiting for this moment

 

[subshakerz]

Tbf Kohli’s India remains 2-1 in England

It's pretty much the same side.