New Delhi: Virat Kohli’s brother, Vikas, tore into Indian management, including head coach Gautam Gambhir and the Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee, for India’s miserable state in Test cricket. The team is going through one of the darkest phases of Indian cricket. The Asian giants were nearly unbeatable at home between December 2012 and October 2025, when they didn’t lose a single Test series at home, also improved their away record significantly, with back-to-back series wins in Australia, and Test wins in England and South Africa.
But the last 12 months have been a nightmare for the team, having suffered a whitewash at home against New Zealand and then losing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia. India fared decently in England, where they won two Tests and drew the series, but are again on the verge of a humiliating whitewash against South Africa at home, with the team needing 522 runs to win on the final day – a target that is realistically out of reach.
After India lost KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal early in the second innings, Vikas Kohli took to Instagram’s Thread and took a dig at the team management. He highlighted a stark contrast between India’s dominant years under the leadership of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, noting that India used to be a brute force in games away from home, but now they’re even struggling to win at home.
“There was a time that we played to win even in overseas conditions…. Now we are playing to save the match….even in india.. This is what happens when u try to boss around and change things unnecessary which were not broken….,” Vikas wrote in the Threads post, which he later deleted.
Vikas Alleges Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli Were Sidelined
In a separate post that went viral, he highlighted how South Africa have stuck to the basics by playing a proper Test match team while India have opted to sideline senior players and overload the team with all-rounders. “So lets break it down: Team India strategy: remove senior experienced players. Remove proper 3/4/5 batmen. Play bowler at no 3. Use all all-rounder. SOUTH AFRICA STRATEGY: Play a proper test match team: Specialist openers, Specialist no 3/4/5/6 batters, Specialist spinners, Specialist fast bowlers and maybe 1 all-rounder. Though I really want team India to win but questions needs to be asked now… WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?” he wrote.
India Faces Whitewash Thread
It was hard to imagine India facing two whitewashes at home in Tests a few years ago, but the team is now on the cusp of an embarrassing feat, with South Africa needing just eight wickets on the final day. India need 522 runs, but that is out of the equation, and the best they can do is to draw the Test. But even that will take some doing for a batting lineup that has been very inconsistent of late.
