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Sourav Ganguly Was Going To Issue A Show Cause Notice To Virat Kohli?
By CricShots - Jan 20, 2022 9:09 pm
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After the resignation of Virat Kohli as the Indian Test captain had announced, there have been a lot of speculations making rounds and one of them is that the BCCI did not want to name two captains for two limited-overs formats. Hence, the Chetan Sharma-led selection committee named Rohit Sharma as ODI and T20I skipper of the senior men’s team.

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Virat Kohli 

In an interview, BCCI president, Sourav Ganguly had said that Kohli was urged to continue as the T20I skipper but he refused the offer. And because selectors did not want split captaincy, Rohit Sharma was made the captain for both the white-ball formats.

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However, Kohli had later denied having received any such communication, also saying that he got to know about being sacked as the ODI skipper merely an hour before the format announcement by BCCI selectors. Virat has said all of this in a press conference before the departure to South Africa. Post his comments, Ganguly refused to make any remark.

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Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli

However, as per a report in India Ahead News, Sourav Ganguly was not very happy with Kohli’s statement made in that press conference and wanted to issue a show-cause notice to him.

One of their sources in the BCCI said, “And the board president was all for issuing a show-cause notice to Kohli.”

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However, after being advised by various other BCCI officials, Sourav Ganguly did not issue a show-cause notice. The same report also says that before announcing his resignation as Test captain, Virat Kohli had called up BCCI secretary Jay Shah but did not bother calling Ganguly. Earlier this month, Virat quit the Test captaincy as well after India lost the series 2-1 to South Africa, saying that he would like to continue playing as batter for Team India.