‘I didn’t remove Virat from captaincy’: Sourav Ganguly on Kohli’s resignation as India’s Test skipper

Indian cricket endured a troublesome time when Virat Kohli‘s resignation as India captain was on the heart level of a number of debates. Kohli stepped down from India’s T20I captaincy after the T20 World Cup 2021 and was later eliminated from the ODI skipper’s function. He then stepped down from Test captaincy in the beginning of 2022.

Kohli give up the Test captain’s function on the finish of the India vs South Africa Test sequence in 2021/22. Kohli, who was on the helm of the longest format from 2014 onwards, made a sudden resignation from the publish regardless of being probably the most profitable India captain within the format. 

Former India captain and the BCCI President on the time of Kohli’s resignation Sourav Ganguly has opened up on the batter’s departure from captaincy once more. Ganguly has stated that he didn’t remove the Delhi-born cricketer from Test captaincy and he simply needed him to resign as skipper from ODIs after he stepped down from T20Is. “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 stated on Dadagiri Unlimited Season 10, a actuality present.

Kohli stepped down as India’s Test captain a day after the Men in Blue misplaced the sequence 2-1 to South Africa. He had earlier resigned as T20I captain in 2021 and was eliminated from ODI’s high publish by the Indian Board. 

Ganguly recalled how he pushed Rohit Sharma to take captaincy in all three codecs. “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 stated.

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