The skipper of the Indian cricket crew, Rohit Sharma, has dismissed the latest reports of meeting the BCCI chief selector Ajit Agarkar and Team India’s head coach Rahul Dravid to debate India’s squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 as fake.
Rohit made his debut on the Club Praire Fire Podcast and revealed that no such meeting had taken place whereas talking to Adam Gilchrist and Michael Vaughan on the present.
“I haven’t met anyone. Ajit Agarkar is somewhere in Dubai, playing Golf. Rahul Dravid is watching his kid play in Bengaluru. He was in Mumbai, actually. He was. He got him to play on a red soil wicket here at CCI (Cricket Club of India). That’s about it,” Rohit Sharma advised on the Club Praire Fire Podcast.
“We haven’t met, to be honest. In today’s day and age, unless you hear it from either myself, Rahul himself, Ajit himself, or someone from the BCCI coming and talking in front of the camera, everything is fake,” he added.
Notably, reports had surfaced that Agarkar, Rohit and Dravid met on the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai to debate India’s make-up for the T20 World Cup 2024. Some of the reports additionally recommended that Virat Kohli could be thought of as an opener alongside Rohit throughout India’s T20 World Cup marketing campaign.
Meanwhile, Rohit additionally shared that he would love Rishabh Pant to be a component of India’s T20 World Cup squad when the previous England captain Vaughan requested him if there was a participant he wish to have within the crew for the sake of recreation and enjoyable.
“All these guys are quite crazy to be honest. If anyone, who makes me laugh, then it’s Rishabh Pant. He is one crazy guy. I have been watching him since he was a kid. I was quite disappointed when he missed a year-and-a-half due to that accident. He is quite witty. The kind of stuff he does behind the stumps makes you laugh. He has got his own way of doing this, this is what I like about it,” Rohit talked about.
