Sourav Ganguly BREAKS Silence on Removal of Captain Virat Kohli
Kolkata: Former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly was at the centre of it all when Virat Kohli stepped down as the Test captain of the country. While that created massive uproar among plaudits and fans who reckoned that then supremo of the Indian board was behind the decision. Months after that episode, Kohli has moved on and Ganguly is also not the president of the Indian board. During a popular reality show recently, Ganguly revealed that he was not behind the ouster of Kohli as Test captain.
“I didn’t remove Virat from captaincy. I have told this a lot of times. He was not interested to lead in T20Is. So, after he made that decision, I told him, if you’re not interested to lead in T20Is, it’s better if you step down from entire white-ball cricket. Let there be a white-ball captain and a red-ball captain,” Ganguly said on Dadagiri Unlimited Season 10, a reality show.
Kohli is currently on a break in London with his family. He would be joining the India squad for the Tests versus South Africa later this year on Boxing Day.
India’s Squad For Test Series vs South Africa: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh Krishna.
Kohli was recently awarded the player of the series in the recently concluded ODI World Cup 2023 in India. He would be one of the players to watch out for during the Tests in South Africa as well.