Virat Kohli will be my man in a white-ball run chase: Nasser Hussain

It’s established now: Virat Kohli is the best chaser in the modern-day cricket. Numbers don’t lie. Kohli’s average in successful chases of 300-plus targets rises to 141.85. Former England captain Nasser Hussain too is mesmerized by the ability of the Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper. 

Hussain believes that Kohli read the match situation better than the others and then plans how to take the target down. Kohli once revealed that he likes to break down the targets in order to secure successful chases. The former England captain thinks that Kohli likes to keep an eye on the number his team needs to get.

“If you ask me to name one person, I want in a run chase in white-ball cricket, it would be Kohli because he sees that winning target and that’s all he’s interested in. So, he’s his own man, he’s got better at certain things or still certain areas I’d like to see Kohli improve on,” Hussain said on the Cricket Connected Show on Star Sports.

It’s not just the chases Kohli but also the captain Kohli who has impressed Hussain. The way he balances between the captaincy and batting is what makes him cut above the rest. However, Hussain wants Kohli to be a little more mindful with team selections. 

“I call him the tinker man. Every over, you have to change the field, he’s running up changing things, he tinkers a little bit too much. Selection - I know people say what’s that got to do with Kohli, but you got to have a selection plan,” Hussain added.

“I think India did a lot of things well, I’m not sure selection is one of them. Coming to a World Cup, not knowing who your No. 4 is when you got so many great batsmen in India, their selection issues that need to be sorted out, but the whole point of captaincy is to win games of cricket. And if you look at Kohli’s record as a captain, it is right up there with the best there’s ever been.”