Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli cleared all speculations before leaving for the West Indies tour. He denied all rumours of any kind of rift between him and Rohit Sharma. Post the World Cup the news of split captaincy theory in Indian cricket has added more spices to the already existing controversies. Meanwhile, Kohli went to the Windies to lead the team and Shoaib Akhtar took to Twitter to show his support for the Indian captain.
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Former Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar is a famous social media cricketer and runs an active youtube channel of his own. He asked his fans to ask questions for him with #AskShoaibAkhtar on Twitter. During this time many questions were directed to the Indian cricket scenario. People asked the Rawalpindi Express about the Kohli-Sharma and he showed a complete inclination towards Kohli. He was asked in a question that Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma? On which he opted for Virat Kohli. Another question was asked whether Rohit Sharma should replace Virat Kohli as captain of India and Shoaib was direct to reply “It is not needed.” In another tweet, Akhtar was asked to describe Mahendra Singh Dhoni in a word. Akhtar used ‘the Legend (great)’ for Dhoni.
India team already has left for the West Indies tour. This tour will be a tough one for the players because of various reasons. This is just next to the World Cup debacle and there are a lot of stories doing roundabout team, management, Virat-Rohit relationship, Dhoni’s retirement, Dhoni’s replacement, number four spot in ODI and what not! The Indian team has to battle with a lot of issue in this tour and focus on winning with dominance. A good victory will be able to stop everything and bring back the followers to the game. Akhtar’s words will definitely boost the confidence of Kohli.
