Former Indian captain reacted sharply to Ganguly-Kohli clash, gave this advice to BCCI
Dilip Vengsarkar On Sourav Ganguly-Virat Kohli Conflict: Former Indian cricket team captain and former selection committee chief Dilip Vengsarkar believes that board president Sourav Ganguly should not have spoken on the issue of Virat Kohli’s captaincy on behalf of the national selectors.
In fact, before leaving for South Africa tour, Indian Test captain Virat Kohli said in a press conference that none of the BCCI had asked him to reconsider his decision to step down from T20 captaincy. At the same time, Ganguly had claimed that he had spoken to Kohli on this issue.
Former captain Dilip Vengsarkar said, “There was no point for Sourav Ganguly to speak on behalf of the selection committee. He is the BCCI president. Chetan Sharma, the head of the selection committee, should have spoken on the matter of selection or captaincy.”
It is worth noting that Ganguly had said that after Virat Kohli’s decision to step down from the captaincy of the T20 team, it was decided to make Rohit Sharma the captain of the ODI team as there is no point in having two different captains in the two formats of limited overs. Is. Regarding this, Vengsarkar said, “It is the decision of the selection committee to choose or remove the captain. It does not come under Ganguly’s purview.”
Virat Kohli denies 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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