At the last moment of 2014, in the middle of the tour of Australia, Virat Kohli was suddenly given the responsibility of the leadership of the Indian Test team. Then in early 2015, Virat Kohli officially took charge of the Indian Test team.
Then the Test cricket world started to see an aggressive captain. From 2015 to the beginning of 2022, Kohli led the Indian Test team for seven consecutive years. Finally, he announced his resignation from the leadership of the Indian Test team.
Before the last ICC T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli abruptly relinquished the leadership of the Indian T20 team. He was then removed from the position of ODI captain amid much controversy. This time, just after the series loss against South Africa, Kohli announced his sudden resignation from the Test captaincy.
Though India has not won any ICC titles in limited-overs cricket under his leadership, no other Indian captain in Test cricket is statistically close to Kohli. He has led India in 68 Tests, where the team got 40 wins (24 home matches and 16 away matches). The Indian team led by Kohli has drawn in 11 matches and got defeated in 18 matches.
MS Dhoni (27 wins in 60 matches) and Sourav Ganguly (21 wins in 49 Tests) are in second and third place respectively as Indian captains. Kohli’s win rate is 58.82%, more than MS Dhoni (45%) and Sourav Ganguly (42.85%).
Virat Kohli is ranked fourth highest match-winning captain in the history of Test cricket. First is Graeme Smith (53 in 109 matches), second is Ricky Ponting (48 in 77 matches), and third is Steve Waugh (41 in 57 matches). Kohli secured the feet of the first Asian captain to win a Test series on Australian soil.
India got the apex position in Tests under his captaincy. However, despite reaching the final of the ICC World Test Championship 2021, they lost to New Zealand and lost the title. It is not as if his batting has suffered due to the captaincy. Despite not scoring a single international century in the last two years, Kohli has scored a total of 5864 Test runs at an average of 54.8.