The question is, who will be vice-captain: and Rishabh Pant fits the bill
The Hindu
How good a captain was Kohli? What he lacked tactically, he made up with result-influencing intensity.
Let’s forget the statistics for a moment, or the impact or the legacy and consider our first reaction to Virat Kohli’s resignation from captaincy. Here is the most powerful man in Indian cricket – and by extension world cricket – quitting a job he manifestly enjoyed, and had been so successful in. How could we not feel a twinge of sadness and disappointment, and consider a slew of might-have-beens?
Kohli provoked extreme reactions. Old-timers thought he represented the worst of youth. Youngsters thought he stood for the best, for the so-called ‘New India’, and even went about growing beards like him. Both were wrong.
He loved and respected Test cricket and played it with a passion even the IPL generation could seldom whip up. He was old-fashioned but with a modern twist. You saw in him what you wanted to see, and that made him a media darling.