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[Saba Sports News] Former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly again put forward his stance on the Virat Kohli captaincy saga, stating that he did not remove the latter from the leadership.
For the unversed, Kohli relinquished India’s T20I captaincy after the 2021 World Cup. As the BCCI wanted only a single white-ball captain, he was asked to step down from the leadership post in ODIs as well. Apparently, this did not go down well with Kohli, who resigned from the Test captaincy as well.
The blame of Kohli’s decision was transferred to Ganguly by a section of fans, who believed that the ex-India player is the primary reason of this turmoil.
While Ganguly has already cleared the air on numerous occasions, he again put across his point, sharing that he did not remove Kohli from captaincy.
“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 as quoted on the reality show Dadagiri Unlimited Season 10.
Ganguly also revealed that current India captain Rohit Sharma was not ready to take over the leadership in all formats, but he insisted the 36-year-old, who eventually agreed.
“I pushed Rohit Sharma a bit to take up the captaincy role because he wasn’t interested to lead in all three formats of the game. So, maybe I have a bit of contribution in that but no matter who is administrating, it’s the players who perform well on the field. I was appointed as the President of BCCI to work for the betterment of Indian cricket, this is a small part of it,” he added.