Whenever any team loses a match, cricket experts and fans always point out some player as the scapegoat of the game. Regardless of the format, fans and experts have blamed bowlers and batters equally because they thought if the bowler had taken the wicket of a particular batter, they would have won the match easily.
But when it comes to T20I, the shortest format of cricket, we always pick the batters as the villains of the match because T20I always depends on how our batters perform or how much run a team can put on the board, or how much we can chase in the second innings.
At that time, the strike rate of the batter matters the most because, in T20Is, one over can change the moment of the match. So you have always noticed that the team whose batters have a higher strike rate they have won the game most of the time.
Looking at this matter, Indian veteran batter Virat Kohli is on the critic’s radar, and they have suggested that he would bat down the lineup. Virat has scored 4008 runs in 107 innings with a strike rate of 137.96. If we take this as the approximate, he will score 138 runs on 100 balls, which is not even an up-to-mark total on the board as per the cricket developing in the shortest format.
Virat came to bat at the 3rd position for the Indian team in T20Is, but he scored 5.7% slower than Rohit Sharma, 5.2% slower than KL Rahul, and 27% slower than Suryakumar Yadav. But, a fan of Kohli saying that he is the most run-getter in the T20I, why does everybody focus on Kohli? Responding to this, T20I is not a game collector but a game of destructors.
If Virat goes down in the batting lineup, then Surya will take his, and it will be an exciting approach to see whether he will perform the same as of now or if any change will be seen.
