Former India ODI captain and current India Test skipper Virat Kohli has dropped a big bomb on the Indian selectors and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly as he counetered his claims of having a thorough discussion before removal of the former as India ODI captain.
Kohli said that he was just informed about the board’s decision after the Test squad for India’s South Africa tour was announced. The 33-year-old also debunked the claims of having a thorough discussion with him om how the white ball and red ball captaincy are going to be a different ball game together as claimed by Ganguly during an interview with a news channel on the same issue.
“I was contacted one-and-a-half hour before the Test team was selected. There was no prior communication (on team selection and change of captaincy). The chief selector discussed the Test team,” Kohli said in a press conference on Wednesday. “And in the end, I was told that I won’t be the captain and I said it's fine. After the meeting, we had a brief chat and that's it,” he further added.
This press conference will now leave BCCI scampering for reasons to defend what they have said before as it clearly shows that there was a miscommunication on part of the board with the caption as well as the media.