Kohli nucleus of a new India team

How Virat Kohli deals with his new responsibility as vice-captain will be crucial to an Indian team in transition, writes Sanjjeev Karan Samyal in the Hindustan Times.

The 4-0 Test whitewash and the tri-series flop make it clear the current squad has no future. Indian cricket is in crisis. From the depths of doom and gloom, everyone is hoping that a new world will emerge. Virat is the man who has shown the potential to become the player around whom the nucleus of the future team can be built.

Dileep Premachandran writes in the Sunday Guardian that the emergence of Kohli as a batsman of note is one of India's few bright spots on the Australia tour.