India witnessed a dream start to the three-match ODI series against West Indies as they won the opening game of the series by six wickets. India limited-overs skipper, Rohit Sharma started his ODI captaincy stint with a 51-ball 60 in the series opener. However, former Indian captain Virat Kohli failed to do much as he only managed to score eight runs. After India lost the Test series against South Africa by 2-1, Kohli also stepped down as Test skipper as he was sacked as ODI skipper already. 

Rohit replaced Kohli as captain in the white-ball cricket, and the Indian opener is likely to become the Test captain as well. However, Kohli and Rohit were seen gelling together very well in the first ODI against West Indies. Meanwhile, Sunil Gavaskar has called the media reports mentioning the rift between Kohli and Rohit as just speculations.

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During a chat on Star Sports, Sunil Gavaskar said, “Why wouldn’t they be getting along? They are playing for India. All these talks that you generally hear about two players not gelling and etc. are all speculations. According to reliable sources or allegedly or reportedly. Nobody actually tells you and this has been happening for years. You wouldn’t even bother about these kinds of speculations because you yourself know what the truth is. And so there is nothing.”

Sunil Gavaskar also comes in support of Virat Kohli to return to scoring ways.

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Describing the same, Sunil Gavaskar said, “There are often speculations that the captain who is now a player in the team will not want the new captain to succeed. This is nonsense. Because if he doesn’t score runs or a bowler doesn’t pick wickets then he is going to be out of the team. So all these talks are mere speculations from people who have nothing better to do and are trying and creating stories. He will get runs whether he is playing under Rohit Sharma or any other captain.”