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Bengaluru, May 6 (CRICKETNMORE):  <\/strong>Virat Kohli is exceptionally open to ideas and relies on his intuition as captain, feels Daniel Vettori.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Vettori, the bespectacled spin great and former New Zealand captain, has worked with Kohli for six seasons as player and coach at Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

India and RCB skipper Kohli failed to take the IPL franchise to the playoffs once again this time as the team finished rock-bottom in the ten-team points table.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"When I used to speak to him or any other coaches (used to) speak to him, there's always a conversation around what you think is best, where can this work," Vettori was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo's Talking T20 podcast.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"It wouldn't always be a numbers-driven conversation, it would be around some intuition and understanding of the game. I think, ultimately, when you sold a compelling story to Virat, he was always on board, open to listen and that made him such a good captain," Vettori said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"For me, I think there's such a strong correlation between thorough planning and the use of data to performance. I think it's so important because I think cricket, in general, is quite immature in terms of its exposure to this and...the sport I like is baseball, and I think they use it as strongly as anyone. The thing they have in their favour is huge sample sizes, and the thing that I always battled with (as a coach) was '(you say), here's a plan' and then go back to how many times it's worked. 'Oh, it's worked four times'. And four times doesn't seem like a lot to base things on. I think that's what [the challenge is]. When you're presenting to the captain or the owner or the rest of the coaches, you want to be overwhelming with it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

"And I know that with baseball, and a lot of the sites that I follow, they want 500 instances of that to happen before they can sort of guarantee a prediction that they can rely on. And when you're dealing with David Warner facing Yuzvendra Chahal, [say], 33 times over the course of his career, and then you make a prediction from that, I think that's the thing they have, but that's only gonna grow. So, while we're in these infant stages, I think it's hard for people to get their heads around [analytics]. But, the people who are gonna buy into this first, get their heads around it, I think they'll get the jump-start on everyone," the 40-year old left-arm spinner explained.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Vettori was part of both RCB sides which finished runners-up in 2011 (as captain) and 2016 (as coach), apart from a run to the playoffs in 2015. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

There has been talk surrounding Kohli's leadership in the aftermath of RCB's dismal showing this season. The 30-year-old, regarded as the best batsman of his generation, will lead India in the upcoming World Cup next month in England and Wales.
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