Former England skipper Nasser Hussain has lashed out at Kevin Pietersen and Cricket Board authorities for the captain-coach row which pushed the country's cricket into a turmoil.
Hussain also lavished praise on Kohli after the maestro recorded his 48th ODI hundred in the seven-wicket win against Bangladesh.
The England captain said his side is capable of upsetting Australia in the triseries finals.
'And obviously two losses and being out of the tournament and a bit of hangover of the few tournaments before I think it probably reached the end of the road foe me and my captaincy, is a shame, I'm sad about that.'
Former England skipper Nasser Hussain feels the highly-lucrative Indian Premier League will entice and exhaust players unless it is carefully handled by cricket boards across the world.
"If anyone doubted he was ever a team man, they got to see it first-hand today. That requires more than just steel," Shastri said in a video posted by the BCCI on its website.
The former captain and Mark Butcher scored fluent centuries as England totalled 296-3 at the close on day 1 of the third Test against South Africa.
Former England captain Nasser Hussain has termed the axed Australian quartet from the Mohali Test as lazy and disrespectful and said that they will never forget the public humiliation of being dumped.
"You don't sledge Lara because you don't want to wake him up," said the former England captain.
"I believe England have the raw materials to build another very strong side. The area of concern for me is mental; they need toughening up," Hussain said in an interview for the February issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine.
Former players Nasser Hussain and Glenn McGrath have hit out at the ICCfor bowing down to BCCI and appeasing them on every count.
Stokes begins his tenure with a two-Test series against New Zealand, in June.
Former England skipper Nasser Hussain has said that his controversial "donkey" remark against a few Indian cricketers during their one-off Twenty20 match against England was not intended to attack any player personally.
He will lead for the home series against Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Taking strong objection to former England captain Nasser Hussain's comparison of Indian cricketers to 'donkeys', the BCCI on Monday decided to take up the issue with the English Cricket Board (ECB).
With Hussain back, England will either have to drop Paul Collingwood or drop one of their pace bowlers.
The former England captain believes believes England's job will be tougher this year because their bowling attack is inexperienced.
Former England captain Nasser Hussain has backed Andy Flower to be the country's new coach, saying the Zimbabwean could be an excellent in the role he filled on a short-term basis in the West Indies.
He suffered a fracture of the big toe on his left foot after being hit by Andrew Hall while batting in the fourth Test.
The England captain said his team can look forward with confidence to\n\nthe World Cup.
The England skipper said that while it was sometimes painful he was unlikely to miss any games as a result.\n\n
The England Test captain wants to hand over the reins to his successor while his team was still winning.
The legendary Sunil Gavaskar rebuked former England captain Nasser Hussain on Wednesday for his assertion that Indian cricket teams of the bygone era were easily bullied unlike the current side, under Virat Kohli.
Joe Hussain said his son Nasser was upset by criticism from former England captains Ian Botham and Bob Willis.
Nasser Hussain has hinted he may consider international retirement after guiding his side to a seven-wicket victory in the first Test against New Zealand.
The former England skipper said Ganguly needs to score runs so that he can talk to his players on an equal basis.
'This is a big year for him, when you are touring Indian away and Ashes away, they are big, big series and are career-defining. It has been a perfect start as a captain and also Joe Root the batsman.'
Agreeing with Ricky Ponting, former England captain Nasser Hussain on Tuesday joined the chorus in criticising England's time-wasting tactics in the drawn Ashes opener, saying it was an "amateur and embarrassing" exercise on the home team's part.
England will decide within the next 24 hours whether they will send all-rounder Andrew Flintoff home, captain Nasser Hussain said on Wednesday.
'It must be a nightmare for the selectors, but should you have your best side for that first India Test? If the next Test after this series was Brisbane in the Ashes, would we send our best side? So why when it's the first Test against India, one of the great sides, aren't we sending our best team?'
"He has taken to Test cricket like duck to water," Nasser Hussain, who was on-air, said.
Former England captain Nasser Hussain feels Andrew Strauss' men can intimidate world number one India even before they set foot here by disposing off a "troubled Sri Lanka" in the ongoing Test series.
'The players can criticise my cricket ball. Can I criticise them for the bad shot or the bad ball? Long hop. You know what I mean? You've got to be sensible.'
Left-arm spinner Monty Panesar deserves more chances to play for England in Test cricket, having once again proved his doubters wrong, says former Test captain and cricket commentator Nasser Hussain.
Former England captain Nasser Hussain said that the Indian fans are waiting to put 'Bazball' to bed during the five-Test series against the Three Lions from January 25 onwards and said that Indian spinners and batters will outplay those of England on turning tracks.
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