Everyone in BCCI told Kohli to continue as T20 captain: Chetan Sharma

Chetan Sharma On Virat Kohli: Refuting Virat Kohli’s statement, Indian cricket team’s chief selector Chetan Sharma on Friday said that Kohli was asked by everyone in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to continue as the T20 captain. After Kohli stepped down as T20 captain, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had said that the board had asked Kohli to reconsider his decision.

Kohli later refuted Ganguly’s statement, saying that he had not spoken to the Board President and that he was informed 90 minutes before the selection committee meeting for the tour of South Africa about his removal from the ODI captaincy.

Chetan Sharma said on Friday, from the selectors to the BCCI office-bearers, everyone had asked Kohli to continue on the captaincy till the T20 World Cup. He further said, everyone had asked him to reconsider the decision.

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Chief selector told what happened on the phone call

Chetan Sharma further said that the decision to take the captaincy of the ODI team from Virat Kohli was entirely of the selectors. He further said, “I had told about the removal of Virat Kohli from the ODI captaincy 90 minutes before the selection of the Test team. I myself had called him. I had a good talk with Virat Kohli.”

Virat Kohli denied Sourav Ganguly’s claim

Contrary to Sourav Ganguly’s statement, Virat Kohli said that no one had any problem with my decision. No one told me not to give up T20 captaincy. He said, “The first thing I told the BCCI about giving up the T20 captaincy. It was received very well. No one has any problem, I have not been told that you should not give up the captaincy of T20, but my that The decision was appreciated.”

Know what Sourav Ganguly said

In an interview after Virat Kohli was removed as the captain of the ODI team, Dada had said, “We requested Virat Kohli not to step down as T20 captain, but he does not want to continue in this position. Were.” Ganguly had even said that he himself had appealed to Kohli not to give up the T20 captaincy, but Virat remained adamant on leaving the T20 captaincy while talking about the workload.

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