Former Team India head coach Greg Chappell said that the selectors need to decide on Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s future amid their inconsistencies. Chappell also stressed that players will hardly step aside themselves despite knowing they are past their peak as well. While Rohit and Kohli have been Team India’s biggest match-winners over the last decade across formats, they have been inconsistent over the
past 18 months now. Their poor form was one of the key reasons behind India’s recent 3-0 series loss to New Zealand at home, and the same was partly responsible for their 10-wicket defeat to Australia in Adelaide as well.

Speaking to reporters in Adelaide, he said via The Hindustan Times: “You know yourself whether you’re at your peak or not. But they obviously love playing the game. They want to play it as long as they can, and they have every reason, every right to want to go as long as they can. That’s why you need good, robust selection policies and selection panels to make those tough decisions. It’s not up to the players necessarily to make those decisions. They might want to make that decision. But it’s a well-paid job. Who’s going to walk away from it? Someone else has to make that decision.”

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When he was asked how tough it is to chat with players of Rohit and Kohli’s stature, Greg Chappell said it is tough. However, he also suggested that making knee-jerk decisions is also not the way to go as well.

“It’s very tough. You’ve got to pick the right people to be selectors, the ones that are prepared to have those tough conversations. They can be. Depends on the relationships between the various people in the room. But we all go through it, everyone that plays at that level. You’ll have your ups and downs as a player. With good players, you prefer to give them a game too many than a game too few. So it’s always tough to get that balance right,” Greg Chappell concluded.