Virat Kohli vs BCCI – Kapil Dev to Ganguly, Kohli: Former Indian World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev is pained by differences between Virat Kohli & BCCI President Sourav Ganguly. Kapil has urged both Ganguly & Kohli to either pick a phone on each other or sit together to end the period of turmoil in Indian cricket. Kapil feels, India cricket is getting hurt by the differences between the two & the duo for the sake of country should bury the hatchet: Follow Indian Cricket LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN
“They should have sorted out the issues between them. Pick up the phone, talk to each other, put the country and team before yourself, sort the issues for the sake of Indian cricket” Kapil told The Week magazine.
Virat Kohli vs BCCI: Kapil Dev’s advice for Kohli & Ganguly, ‘Pick up the phone and talk to each other. put country before yourself’
Virat Kohli Captaincy Issue: In October, first Virat Kohli resigned as India’s T20 captain. In December, the BCCI sacked Kohli as India’s ODI captain, which was followed by a period of turmoil in Indian cricket.
Ganguly and Kohli gave contradictory statements to the media on the issue. This was followed by Kohli dropped another bombshell after test series defeat in South Africa.
Kohli resigned as India’s Test captaincy & that led to more turmoil in Indian cricket.
According to Kapil, Kohli should have been more mature in handling things.
“In the beginning, I also got everything I wanted. But sometimes, you may not get it. That should not mean that you leave the captaincy. If he has left it because of that, then I do not know what to say”, said Kapil
Under Kohli, India achieve their best results in the test arena. He won a series for India in Australia, West Indies, Sri Lanka and made India the NO.1 test team in the world.
Kapil now wants, Kohli to score more and more runs and end his drought of centuries as soon as possible.
He is a fabulous player; [I want to] watch him play so much more and score runs, especially in Test cricket,”, said Kapil.