Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has made a startling revelation that Rohit Sharma wasn’t keen to take up full time captaincy after Virat Kohli stepped down as captain throughout all codecs. The final couple of 2021 and the early 2022 was a controversial interval in Indian cricket when Kohli voluntarily stepped down because the T20I captain however was keen to proceed on the helm within the different two codecs.
But the selectors had been of the view the view that there ought to solely be one captain in white-ball cricket and swiftly introduced Rohit as ODI ansd T20I captain. The choice to take away Kohli from the helm in ODIs shocked many after which the person stepped down from Test captaincy too after India misplaced the Test collection in South Africa. Rohit Sharma was then additionally introduced the Test captain however Ganguly who was then the BCCI President, has revealed that the previous wasn’t prepared to take up full time captaincy.
Ganguly had to satisfied Rohit in some way to take up the mantle of Indian cricket at that stage with nobody in sight for the position. However, now he’s joyful that the Mumbai cricketer is scoring runs for the staff upfront and main from the entrance.
“Rohit [Sharma] didn’t want the captaincy because there was a lot of pressure on playing all formats – it had gone to a stage where I told him you have to say yes or I will announce your name. I am happy he has taken it now he is leading from the front and you guys can check the results,” Ganguly mentioned in an interview to Kolkata TV.
For the unversed, Rohit Sharma’s aggressive method on the high has benefitted India rather a lot within the ongoing World Cup. He has scored 442 runs in eight matches to this point at a strike-rate of 122.78 with 22 sixes to his identify.
