It has been a couple of weeks since Indian cricket found itself to be divided among two halves, each siding with either the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly or the Test captain of the Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli, on the matter of how Kohli’s leadership in ODI cricket was taken away from him.
Before leaving for South Africa for a three-Test series followed by as many ODIs, Kohli was a part of a press conference in which he said a few things that were in complete contrast with what Ganguly had said just a couple of days before.
One of the biggest discussions that have been revolving around the two sides was the matter of how the BCCI dealt with Kohli’s decision to step down as the T20I captain of the Men in Blue back in September 2021.
While Ganguly maintained that he had made a “personal request” to Kohli to rethink his decision to quit and remain the leader in the shortest format of the game, the 33-year-old said that the entire BCCI organisation was absolutely fine with his call to quit captaincy and focus on becoming a better batter.
