Leadership improves Virat’s performance: Whatmore

TIL Desk Sports/ ‘The biggest plus point for Kohli is that leadership is not affecting his performance, in fact it is the opposite, it is helping him’ says Dav Whatmore As coach he did the impossible and stunned the cricketing world when he coached underdogs Sri Lanka to the World Cup title in 1996.

Apart from Sri Lanka, he has had a fruitful stint with Bangladesh where he oversaw their first-ever Test win and shock win over India in the 2007 World Cup while also upsetting top teams like Australia and South Africa.

Dav Whatmore narrowly missed taking up the Indian coach’s job in 2007 after Greg Chappell’s resignation, but went on to coach Pakistan and recently Zimbabwe.

Dav was in charge when Virat Kohli’s team won the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia in 2008. He also worked with the Kolkata Knight Riders from 2009 to 2012. More than two decades since that Sri Lankan triumph, Whatmore remains one of the most sought after coaches in the cricketing world.