5 ways in which MS Dhoni's world No. 1 team was different from that of Virat Kohli's

#4 Virat Kohli’s batting stats as Test captain are much better

Kohli, on paper, is a better batsman as captain than Dhoni

It is said that some players are burdened by captaincy, so much so that their performances as a player get affected and their numbers go down. This wasn’t the case with both Kohli and Dhoni as their numbers as captain and non-captain tell us that they didn’t let captaincy affect their batting in any way.

But when we compare the two, we see that the difference in Kohli’s stats as a batsman when he is captain and when he was not captain is far greater than Dhoni’s.

MS Dhoni’s batting stats as captain

Tests	Innings	Runs	Average	Hundreds	Fifties
60	96	3454	40.63	5	24

MS Dhoni’s batting stats as non-captain

Tests	Innings	Runs	Average	Hundreds	Fifties
30	48	1422	33.07	1	9

Overall

Tests	Innings	Runs	Average	Hundreds	Fifties
90	144	4876	38.09	6	33

Difference in average as captain and non-captain: +7.56

Difference in average as captain and his overall stats: +2.54

Virat Kohli’s batting stats as captain

Tests	Innings	Runs	Average	Hundreds	Fifties
17	27	1456	53.92	6	2

Virat Kohli’s batting stats as non-captain

Tests	Innings	Runs	Average	Hundreds	Fifties
31	5	2098	41.13	7	10

Overall

Tests	Innings	Runs	Average	Hundreds	Fifties
48	82	3554	45.56	13	12

Difference in average as captain and non-captain: +12.79

Difference in average as captain and his overall stats: +8.36

As can be clearly seen from the stats, Virat Kohli’s game as a Test batsman has gone to a next level after becoming the captain and he is leading by example with the bat.

He recently became the first Indian Test captain to score two double hundreds and also holds the record for being the only Test captain to score hundreds in his first 3 innings as captain. Dhoni’s stats too show that he averaged better as Test captain but the difference in Kohli’s stats as captain and non-captain is startling.