It's easy to overlook Virat Kohli's enormous influence as captain of this talented Indian team. Kohli is a good captain and a strong leader. He's embraced the first rule of successful captaincy; if you are given the responsibility then make sure you lead. He placed his colourful imprint on the Indian team right from the outset as he stood in for the injured skipper MS Dhoni at the Adelaide Oval in 2014-15. His opening gambit as captain ended in gallant defeat, as India narrowly went down, sooled on by Kohli to seek an unlikely victory.

Going all out for victory
The impressive thing about his captaincy in that match was not so much his inspirational batting but the logic behind the headlong dash for victory. Kohli reasoned that the Indian batsmen would eventually be overwhelmed if they played purely for survival on a pitch receptive to spin and that their best chance of survival was to attack.
The captain led the charge by producing the best fourth innings counter-attack I've seen. It resulted in his second century in the match which would've led to a glorious victory if he hadn't holed out near the boundary to one of Nathan Lyon's least dangerous deliveries.