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Cricket latest Virat Kohli and Sourav Ganguly’s stretched relationship typically made the headings however this is the very first time such sort of occurrence has actually occurred.
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The Virat Kohli vs Sourav Ganguly debate has actually taken another dogleg as the previous Royal Challengers Bangalore has apparently unfollowed the previous KKR skipper on Instagram. On Saturday, in the RCB vs DC match, both stalwarts of Indian cricket prevented each other which sparked a buzz on social networks. Kohli left the Indian captaincy function when Ganguly was at the helm of BCCI as the president and Rohit Sharma was selected consequently.
Virat and Sourav’s stretched relationship frequently made the headings however this is the very first time such sort of event has actually occurred. Virat has actually remained in stupendous kind as he is leading RCB’s charge in the IPL this season. Ganguly had earlier exposed to ANI that BCCI had actually asked for the 34-year-old not to step down from the management function however the gamer declined.
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It’s a call that the BCCI and the selectors took together. Really, the BCCI had actually asked for Virat to not step down as the T20I skipper, however, undoubtedly, he did not concur and the selectors then did not feel it best to have 2 various captains for 2 white-ball formats“
Later on in an interview, Virat verified that he never ever had any conversation with the selectors concerning this matter.“There was no previous interaction with me at all because I revealed the T20 captaincy choice up until the 8th of December. I was informed that the selectors had actually chosen that I will not be ODI captain to which I responded, ‘Okay, great’. There was no previous interaction. That is what occurred.
The matter and the inconsistent words from both these stalwarts got a great deal of eyeballs. Prior to the 2021 edition of the T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli made it clear that he will step down as the captain of the T20 format after the ICC occasion, however right after India crashed out of the competition, Virat left the ODI and Test captaincy too. Matters simply did not stop here as Kohli likewise chose to step down as the Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper. The Indian stalwart was later on been successful by Rohit Sharma as the skipper of all 3 formats.