Virat Kohli was asked to reconsider decision his to step down as T20I captain: Chief selector Chetan Sharma

[Austin 3:!6]

Chief selector Chetan Sharma has confirmed that the board had asked Virat Kohli not to step down as T20I captain.

 

Team India's chief selector Chetan Sharma has confirmed that the BCCI had asked Virat Kohli not to step down as the T20 captain just before the start of the World Cup. A month before the start of the ICC event, the former skipper had announced his decision to leave captaincy after the end of the tournament.

 

As per Kohli, no one from the board had asked him not to step down. But Chetan has said that the selectors were shocked and had asked him to take the decision after T20 WC.

"All selectors felt that leaving captaincy will have an effect on the World Cup campaign.  We all told Virat Kohli that this could be discussed after the World Cup. Virat Kohli is a national treasure. We respect him a lot. In the end, we only want the benefit of Indian cricket," Sharma said in the presser.

 

"It was a hard decision for the selectors, but selectors have to take hard decisions. You take hard decisions even while making the Playing XI. I know Virat is an important player for us in the coming days and coming years. With the World Cup coming up, that news [of Kohli wanting to step down as T20I captain] surprised us. Everyone in the meeting said that you should think about your decision and we can speak about it after the World Cup. We all felt that it will affect the World Cup..."

 

 

Chief selector on Virat Kohli : Virat Kohli was asked to reconsider decision his to step down as T20I captain: Chief selector Chetan Sharma | Cricket News (timesnownews.com)

[Sandeep99]

Enough of this drama.. The Prima Donna was sacked because of non performance. Let him know it and move on. 

[Kothili]

20 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

"All selectors felt that leaving captaincy will have an effect on the World Cup campaign.  We all told Virat Kohli that this could be discussed after the World Cup. Virat Kohli is a national treasure. We respect him a lot. In the end, we only want the benefit of Indian cricket," Sharma said in the presser.

 

National treasure? Sycophant culture showing.

[Austin 3:!6]

21 minutes ago, Sandeep99 said:

Enough of this drama.. The Prima Donna was sacked because of non performance. Let him know it and move on. 

Think its a response to Kohli's claim that no one from BCCI asked him to stay back as captain.

 

Basically BCCI is saying Kohli lied in his PC

[RajBan]

43 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Think its a response to Kohli's claim that no one from BCCI asked him to stay back as captain.

 

Basically BCCI is saying Kohli lied in his PC

And there is no doubt about that from day one. Section of the media who otherwise dislikes Kohli tried to put in a political angle and portray him as a victim  just because they have certain disagreements with the central government. Bottomline this same media would have kept their mouth shut if this would have been a non BJP government but tried to score political points by piggybacking on the Kohli issue. Otherwise they know that it logically  does not sum up that Kohli would not be consulted in advance by BCCI before announcing a new LOI captain.

[goose]

at this point the BCCI is enacting constructive dismissal 

[vvvslaxman]

This is a pretty unhealthy exchange going on between Kohli and BCCI. Nobody had to say anything. Ganguly didn't have to say anything. Kohli didn't have to say anything. Chetan sharma didn't have to say anything. Shouldn't they have a gag order about sharing board decisions as long as they are part of the system?  

[Vijy]

35 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

This is a pretty unhealthy exchange going on between Kohli and BCCI. Nobody had to say anything. Ganguly didn't have to say anything. Kohli didn't have to say anything. Chetan sharma didn't have to say anything. Shouldn't they have a gag order about sharing board decisions as long as they are part of the system?  

they are more leaky than the titanic after it struck the iceberg.

[Nikola]

Kohli's plan was to retire from t20 so doesn't matter result of t20 worldcup he would have public sympathy and would easily go on to captain odi worldcup. If he wouldn't have decided to quit t20 captaincy before worldcup then he knew if result won't go in his favor he will loose both odi & t20 captaincy. His plan however did not work and he got removed as odi captain as well. There is reason he did not want to wait when selectors said him to stay as captain. He knew what was coming. Now idk if sourav personally told him not to quit t20 captaincy but kohli is angry cause his plan totally failed and he lost captaincy in both format.

Edited December 31, 2021 by Nikola

[ShoonyaSifar]

47 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

This is a pretty unhealthy exchange going on between Kohli and BCCI. Nobody had to say anything. Ganguly didn't have to say anything. Kohli didn't have to say anything. Chetan sharma didn't have to say anything. Shouldn't they have a gag order about sharing board decisions as long as they are part of the system?  

Nope. A board cannot stay silent when its own captain accuses it's president of lying. BCCI should have dealt with this issue much more strongly than it has so far. Anywhere else such a PC would have resulted in immediate dismissal of the captain with disciplinary action initiated.

 

Good on Chetan Sharma to put his and BCCI's side of the story, albeit very briefly. Wouldn't be a bad idea to share more details of the exact conversation.

[Vijy]

1 minute ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Nope. A board cannot stay silent when its own captain accuses it's president of lying. BCCI should have dealt with this issue much more strongly than it has so far. Anywhere else such a PC would have resulted in immediate dismissal of the captain with disciplinary action initiated.

 

Good on Chetan Sharma to put his and BCCI's side of the story, albeit very briefly. Wouldn't be a bad idea to share more details of the exact conversation.

when it's Brat, most people seem to shiver and cower to go up against him. Even BCCI has been toadying up to him for too long.

[ShoonyaSifar]

11 minutes ago, Nikola said:

Kohli's plan was to retire from t20 so doesn't matter result of t20 worldcup he would have public sympathy and would easily go on to captain odi worldcup. If he wouldn't have decided to quit t20 captaincy before worldcup then he knew if result won't go in his favor he will loose both odi & t20 captaincy. His plan however did not work and he got removed as odi captain as well. There is reason he did not want to wait when selectors said him to stay as captain. He knew what was coming. Now idk if sourav personally told him not to quit t20 captaincy but kohli is angry cause his plan totally failed and he lost captaincy in both format.

Typically brand contracts of Indian captains have a clause related to them remaining a captain, especially in LOIs. Not being the LOI captain could mean a 30-40% hit on his fees in the next 6-9 months. Hence the desperation to somehow retain ODI captaincy. Dhoni continued to cling onto ODI captaincy for 2 years exactly for this reason.

[sensible-indian]

Everyone knows BCCI was looking to sack Kohli so he left the T20I captaincy as a pre-emptive measure.

 

Now when he was about to leave, they ask him not to leave "officially".

 

And now they are using it as a technicality in an argument.

 

All in all...massive gaslighting going on.

 

BCCI is well within its right to sack Kohli.

 

But their approach has been weak AF.

[sensible-indian]

3 hours ago, Sandeep99 said:

Enough of this drama.. The Prima Donna was sacked because of non performance. Let him know it and move on. 

We won't do it.

 

We will pussyfoot around the main issue when even a blind man can see what's going on.

[vvvslaxman]

56 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Nope. A board cannot stay silent when its own captain accuses it's president of lying. BCCI should have dealt with this issue much more strongly than it has so far. Anywhere else such a PC would have resulted in immediate dismissal of the captain with disciplinary action initiated.

 

Good on Chetan Sharma to put his and BCCI's side of the story, albeit very briefly. Wouldn't be a bad idea to share more details of the exact conversation.

 

Problem started when Ganguly tried to sugarcoat the firing after backlash from Kohli's PR gang. Something we could have avoided. Chetan sharma is releasing this statement to save Ganguly's face as people are polarized on this issue. 

[raki05]

4 hours ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Chief selector Chetan Sharma has confirmed that the board had asked Virat Kohli not to step down as T20I captain.

 

Team India's chief selector Chetan Sharma has confirmed that the BCCI had asked Virat Kohli not to step down as the T20 captain just before the start of the World Cup. A month before the start of the ICC event, the former skipper had announced his decision to leave captaincy after the end of the tournament.

 

As per Kohli, no one from the board had asked him not to step down. But Chetan has said that the selectors were shocked and had asked him to take the decision after T20 WC.

"All selectors felt that leaving captaincy will have an effect on the World Cup campaign.  We all told Virat Kohli that this could be discussed after the World Cup. Virat Kohli is a national treasure. We respect him a lot. In the end, we only want the benefit of Indian cricket," Sharma said in the presser.

 

"It was a hard decision for the selectors, but selectors have to take hard decisions. You take hard decisions even while making the Playing XI. I know Virat is an important player for us in the coming days and coming years. With the World Cup coming up, that news [of Kohli wanting to step down as T20I captain] surprised us. Everyone in the meeting said that you should think about your decision and we can speak about it after the World Cup. We all felt that it will affect the World Cup..."

 

 

Chief selector on Virat Kohli : Virat Kohli was asked to reconsider decision his to step down as T20I captain: Chief selector Chetan Sharma | Cricket News (timesnownews.com)

Why trying to suck his backside you sacked him be proud of it. Now tell me this moron why the hell did you select dhoban and boobi for sa odi. BC mediocre cricketers hamesa mediocre selection hi karengey.

[mishra]

5 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Problem started when Ganguly tried to sugarcoat the firing after backlash from Kohli's PR gang. Something we could have avoided. Chetan sharma is releasing this statement to save Ganguly's face as people are polarized on this issue. 

What Sharma said seems factual. Who in right mind would not ask Kohli to reconsider his giving up t20 captaincy just before the start of world cup.

 

However, Chetan Sharma coming out with revelation is Gangli showing Kohli his place,  ie letting Kohli  know that now in, he will have to come via proper channel and appointments to speak to Ganguli. 
 

Sad but I don’t see anything wrong. Infact conniving Kohli needs to be reminded his job is not run BCcI but play cricket.

[nevada]

9 hours ago, Nikola said:

Kohli's plan was to retire from t20 so doesn't matter result of t20 worldcup he would have public sympathy and would easily go on to captain odi worldcup. If he wouldn't have decided to quit t20 captaincy before worldcup then he knew if result won't go in his favor he will loose both odi & t20 captaincy. His plan however did not work and he got removed as odi captain as well. There is reason he did not want to wait when selectors said him to stay as captain. He knew what was coming. Now idk if sourav personally told him not to quit t20 captaincy but kohli is angry cause his plan totally failed and he lost captaincy in both format.

But if he retires from T20I format, it looks awkward if he plays IPL, right? If he is really serious about rediscovering his batting touch, Kohli should skip the IPL and focus on test and ODI format. 

[rollingstoned]

What he's saying is what everyone thought then and still thinks ie that he should have announced it after the tournament. It didn't do us any good for all the pre empting he thought he was doing.

[prudent_kreeda]

3 hours ago, sarchasm said:

At this point, everyone is aware Kohli is a cancerous presence in the team.

 

Nobody has a clue about how to remove the cancerous tumor, however.

 

Right now small doses of medicine being administered to contain the bad effects of cancer from spreading all over . If the reaction by cancer to the medicine is volatile , strong doses will be delivered in time to come it seems