Kapil Dev Urges Virat Kohli & Sourav Ganguly To 'Solve Issues Over Phone Call, Keep Nation Ahead'

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had claimed that he personally requested Virat to not step down as India's T20 skipper. However, Virat, in an explosive press conference, said no such request was made.

Kapil Dev & Virat Kohli, Pic Courtesy: PTI

New Delhi: Indian cricket saw a lot of controversies in the last few months. One of the biggest news that garnered the maximum attention was Virat Kohli's resignation as team India's Test captain.

Just a few days before the start of ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021, Virat Kohli announced that this would be his last ICC tournament as India's T20 captain and that he would continue to lead the ODI and Test teams after that.

Everything was fine till here, but after this, the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) stunned everyone by replacing Virat Kohli with Rohit Sharma as India's ODI skipper, making the senior opener captain in white-ball format.

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had claimed that he personally requested Virat to not step down as India's T20 skipper. However, Virat, in an explosive press conference, said no such request was made to him.

1983 World Cup-winning skipper Kapil Dev urged Kohli and Ganguly to solve their issues over a phone call and keep the nation ahead.

“They (Virat Kohli and BCCI) should have sorted out the issues between them. Pick up the phone, talk to each other, put the country and team before yourself. In the beginning, I also got everything I wanted. But sometimes, you may not get it,” Kapil Dev was quoted as saying by The Week magazine.

“That should not mean that you leave the captaincy. If he has left it because of that, then I do not know what to say. He is a fabulous player; [I want to] watch him play so much more and score runs, especially in Test cricket,” he added.