Is Kohli the victim of excessive self-belief by trusting his own rhetoric?

No doubt the coach and captain have to resort to some rhetoric to charge up the Indian cricket team. But when both start believing their own rhetoric, we are treading on dangerous ground

One week ago, James Anderson’s delivery crashed into Mohammed Shami’s stumps and India had lost the last test match and, with it, the series against England. As was to be expected, analyses followed in an attempt to make sense of our loss. Mike Brearley, who is now justly acknowledged as a leading thinker on the game, wondered whether Kohli had become too dominant a figure in Indian cricket. The corollary was clear – was this affecting India’s ability to function as a team? An excessively strong personality as a captain could suppress a counter view in the team.

This refusal to