: Selectors didn’t want two white-ball captains: Ganguly on Rohit taking over from Kohli #IndiaNEWS When Virat Kohli decided to step down as T20I captain, selectors did not feel it would be right to

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Selectors didn’t want two white-ball captains: Ganguly on Rohit taking over from Kohli #IndiaNEWS
When Virat Kohli decided to step down as T20I captain, selectors did not feel it would be right to have two-white ball international captains and hence Rohit Sharma was appointed for ODIs as well, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said on Thursday.The Indian cricket board’s removal of Kohli as ODI captain raised questions over how it was dealt. Kohli had already announced that he was stepping down from the shortest format ahead of the T20 World Cup. The star batter had relinquished his leadership of the T20I side which was then eliminated in the group stage of the World Cup.But Kohli had intended to hold on to the ODI captaincy – a plan that came to an unceremonious end when the Board of Control for Cricket in India said late on Wednesday that Sharma would captain the one-day team on its South Africa tour.“It’s a call that the BCCI and the selectors took together,� Ganguly is quoted as saying by ANI on Thursday. “Actually, the BCCI had requested Virat to not step down as the T20I skipper but obviously, he did not agree. And the selectors then did not feel it right to have two different captains for two white-ball formats.�Ganguly added that he, in his role as...Read more

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