'Virat Kohli ko captaincy phir se de do'- Twitter is flooded with memes over potential split captaincy move

Virat Kohli (Source: Twitter)

In a sudden move by the Indian Cricket Board, they sacked their entire selection committee which was led by Chetan Sharma. This happened immediately after India suffered a shock exit from the recently concluded 20-20 World Cup in Australia. Applications were circulated for the post and the last date to register was on May 28.

The board also is looking to ring in several changes in the Indian Team and is also starting afresh. One among them is split captaincy, which, if executed successfully, will be the first time that there will be separate captains for different formats for the Men in Blue.

Reports are coming in that Hardik Pandya will be handed the mantle of captaincy in the shortest format of the game in an official capacity in the series against Sri Lanka. India did not have a constant captain once Virat Kohli stepped down as the captain in all formats. India had as many as five captains filling in when Rohit Sharma did not play.

KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, and Hardik Pandya led India at different point in time. This indicated India’s handicap of not having a capable leader to zero in on when Virat Kohli left the captaincy.

England have executed split captaincy in the past with Joe Root taking the responsibility for the Test side and Eoin Morgan taking responsibility for the ODI side. When it comes to India, many have said that it will not be in the best interests of the Indian Team but at present, it is the way to go forward due to the hectic scheduling in international cricket.

Virat Kohli, though, had a wonderful reign when he led the Indian side as he recorded 37 wins from 64 Test Matches as captain and in the One Day format, he recorded 65 wins out of 95 games. When it comes to T20Is, he recorded 27 wins from 45 matches. He had a win percentage of 72 as captain across all formats.

Twitter was abuzz when the announcement of potential split captaincy came about. Let us take a look at the reactions here:

Rewind back to 2021 & the ‘No split captaincy in white ball’ logic was used as an excuse to remove someone pic.twitter.com/IMI9zBXacl

— Rahul Anand (@rah2309) November 18, 2022

“A cricketing country like India needs one captain. I remember MS Dhoni saying that split captaincy doesn’t work in India that well. I think Rohit is the man. Every time he touched something; it turned to gold." - DK 💙🇮🇳#MSDhoni • #RohitSharma • #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/kmU6QGcGBZ

— Nithish MSDian 🦁 (@thebrainofmsd) March 4, 2022

*In 2017, Gawd said, "Split Captaincy doesn't work in India"* pic.twitter.com/LJ9uuXVuit

— Mahindro Sing Dhuni (@Gawd_Dhuni) January 15, 2022

"Split Captaincy doesn't work in India."
- MS Dhoni said when he stepped down as ODI captain.#MSDhoni #ViratKohli #RohitSharma #Captain #Skipper #BCCI #Indian_Cricket pic.twitter.com/8PjHxUtFM5

— Harshad Gare (@harshadgare) January 15, 2022

---> Ganguly sacked as BCCI president.
---> Chetan sharma's selection team got sacked.
--->Split captaincy is enabled and Hardik may be our next T20I captain. #RogerBinny ... Ithna karliye tho virat ko test captaincy back lene k liye convince bi kardo na bhai🙂💙#ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/nBSfVfTHiy

— Mr.laZy (@shaik_ziaullah) November 19, 2022

Should Team India follow split captaincy? pic.twitter.com/GnJ7JiJO2Y

— cric_mawa (@cric_mawa_twts) November 19, 2022

Meanwhile all this propoganda is going on regarding split captaincy and making Hardik Pandya as permanent T20I captain we all know on what basis all of this is being decided. Pic unrelated pic.twitter.com/xgnlvQtZou

— Aayush Agrawal (@crazycricfan45) November 18, 2022

Bcci considering split captaincy
VK fans ~ itha thana avarum panna vantharu🚶#bcci #ViratKohli𓃵 #RohitSharma pic.twitter.com/Iy3HHWzBI8

— Praveen (@Praveen14_7) November 19, 2022

If selector go for split captaincy then kohli deserve test format more than others.. He revive test format but maybe he himself can't take.. #captaincy #BCCI pic.twitter.com/1sBJ6LDCYq

— ImBrilliant 🐦 (@ImBrilliant3) November 19, 2022