NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Virat Kohli’s choice to relinquish the 20-overs captaincy resulted in him being eliminated as India’s one-day skipper as selectors didn’t wish to have two totally different white-ball captains, India board (BCCI) chief Sourav Ganguly stated.
Opener Rohit Sharma took over as one-day captain on Wednesday, a month after succeeding Kohli as T20 skipper following their disappointing World Cup marketing campaign.
The board, which not often explains even routine selections, didn’t even point out Kohli by title in conveying the management change in a single sentence on the backside of a press launch asserting the take a look at squad for the upcoming tour of South Africa.
“The board and selectors had requested Virat to rethink his choice to stop T20 captaincy. He had declined the suggestion on the time,” former captain Ganguly advised Friday’s Times of India newspaper.
“The selectors had been uncomfortable with the concept of getting two captains for white-ball cricket.”
India reached the semi-finals of the 50-overs World Cup in 2019 below Kohli however exited from the group stage at this 12 months’s Twenty20 World Cup.
While pleased to play below Rohit within the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia subsequent 12 months, Kohli, who stays the take a look at captain, was eager to steer India within the 50-overs showpiece on residence soil in 2023.
“He has finished effectively even as an ODI captain. But it was not going to be straightforward to have two captains in white-ball cricket with two World Cups in two years,” Ganguly stated.
“The selectors felt the crew wanted one imaginative and prescient and various kinds of captaincy may disrupt the planning.”
Ganguly stated he and chief selector Chetan Sharma spoke to Kohli earlier than making the change.
“We defined the imaginative and prescient to him. He understood the scenario and it was solely then that Rohit was named the captain of the ODI crew.”
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
