New Delhi, December 11, 2012 : .Virat Kohli’s childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma lashed out Saturday at Sourav Ganguly and the BCCI president for how they dealt with the Team India’s ODI captaincy matter.
Rajkumar thought that either the selectors ought to have asked Kohli for his resignation as T20Is captain or should not have altered the skipper.
The stylish batter had decided to quit T20I captaincy as he did not want to continue in the post after the World Cup in the UAE.Rohit was handed over the job after the tournament, and now the board made another announcement to make the Mumbai Indians skipper the captain in the ODI format as well.
“I haven’t talked to him (Virat Kohli) yet.His phone is switched off for some reason.But as far as my opinion is concerned, he had specifically stepped down from T20 captaincy and the selectors sh’uld’ve straightaway asked him to step down from both the white-ball formats or not step down at all,” said Rajkumar while speaking on the Khelneeti podcast.
Ganguly was recently quoted as saying that the selectors were in no mood to have separate captains in T20Is and ODIs as it would cause confusion in the team.
To this, Kohli’s coach said he was surprised by the BC’I chief’s co”ments.”I read Sourav Ganguly’s comments recently that they had asked Kohli to not step down from T20I captaincy (before the World Cup).I don’t recall anything like that.
This statement came as a surprise to me.There are different statements circulating around,” he said.
“The selection committee doesn’t provide a reason behind the decision.We don’t know what the management or the BCCI or the selectors want.There’s no clarification, no transparency at all.It’s a pity how this has happened.He has been such a successful one-day captain,” he added.
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