“I am fighting for him to stay in my team” - Former Australian captain would fight with selectors to keep Virat Kohli in his team

Former Australian skipper Michael Clarke has stated that he would fight with selectors to keep Virat Kohli in his team no matter what. Furthermore, he added that if Kohli retires from Tests right now, Indian cricket would need a lot of time to get back on winning track.

Regrettably, Kohli could score only 190 runs from nine innings in the recently concluded Border Gavaskar Trophy with one century. There were a lot of questions from former cricketers and fans on the Indian cricketer’s future in the game's longest format.

Clarke, who was part of the Beyond23 Cricket Podcast, when asked if Virat Kohli still has Test cricket left in him, he stated that the Indian batter can make a double hundred anytime soon.

"It's Virat Kohli! This guy can make a double hundred tomorrow. He's that good a player. This guy could play, he should play until he's had enough. If he retires from Test cricket right now, there's only one team losing out, it's India,” Michael Clarke told on Beyond23 Cricket Podcast.

"If I was captain of any team that Virat Kohli was in, even though I know he didn't make as many runs, he would have liked, I'm fighting for him to stay in my team," Clarke asserted.

“Sachin is a different player to Virat” - Michael Clarke

It’s worth noting that Sachin Tendulkar hadn’t played a single cover drive during his iconic 241-run unbeaten knock at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2004. 

A lot of experts and fans wanted Virat Kohli to follow the queue in the Australia series. However, it didn’t happen and Kohli kept losing his wicket on away from off-stump balls.

"Sachin was a different player to Virat Kohli. A lot of people throughout this Australian summer were saying Sachin did it in a Test match. He got out cover driving a couple of times and then he let it go and made a 200 at the SCG. Sachin is a different player to Virat. Virat's greatest strength is bat on ball. He just plays it in a different way,” Clarke stated.

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