Here’s look at Virat Kohli’s record as India’s Test captain in comparison to that of Dhoni and Ganguly

Kohli was the captain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches for 7 years.

India has won 58 percent of the matches under Kohli’s leadership...

...compared to MS Dhoni’s 45 percent wins as captain.

Kohli has led India in 68 test matches (40 wins) compared to...

...Dhoni’s 61 matches (27 wins) and Saurav Ganguly’s 49 matches (21 wins).

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was considered to be the most successful Test captain before Kohli.

As Kohli steps down, India sits top on ICC’s test rankings.

India has had two spectacular series wins on foreign soil...

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However, Kohli was not the captain for the matches that India won in Australia as he went on paternity leave.

While India lost the world test championship finals against New Zealand,...

...the team under Kohli bagged the first series win in England since 2007.

The series win in Australia in 2020-21 was also the first time India had beat Australia...

...on the latter’s home soil on two consecutive tours.

India also had a thumping 2-0 win in West Indies in 2019 and 3-0 win against Sri Lanka in 2017.

However, Kohli has struggled as a batter with not a single score of...

...100 or more in more than 50 innings in the last 2 years.

In the last 12 innings, he has had 3 scores of 50 or more and...

...his average in 2021 was 44.08, much less than his career average of 55.68.