Rohit Sharma has been ruled out of the Test series against South Africa. Now, there are reports that Virat Kohli is likely to miss the ODI series as he wants to spend some time with his family. Rohit Sharma recently replaced Virat Kohli as the skipper of the Team in ODIs and T20Is. This gave air to an unwanted controversy. And, now, the rumors are mulling around that he will not be available for the ODI series against Proteas.
India is tipped to play three-match Test series against South Africa starting on 26th December at SuperSport Park in Centurion followed by the rest games in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Afterward, Team India will play a three-match ODI series before traveling back to India.
Sourav Ganguly optimistic about Team India’s future
As per TOI, Team India always had egoistic issues inside the dressing room. There have been reports that players, who had issues with others in the team. But they never let that affect their game on the ground.
“Over the years, the Indian dressing room has been fraught with egos. Be it Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar, Mohammed Azharuddin and Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, MS Dhoni and Virender Sehwag or Gautam Gambhir. But that doesn’t mean that it has boiled over to what they go and do out there on the field. They’re professionals and are required to behave in a certain fashion at all times,” TOI quoted a source tracking the development as saying.
Sourav Ganguly in an interview said that he requested Virat Kohli not to leave the T20I captaincy. But, he wanted to manage his workload and this is fine with the cricket board. As per him, everyone wanted to go with one white-ball cricket due to which such decision was taken by the cricket board. BCCI President looked confident and optimistic that it is a good side with world-class players, who leave no stone unturned going ahead in the future.
“It’s like I said… I personally requested him (Kohli) not to give up the T20I captaincy. Obviously, he felt the workload. Which is fine, he has been a great cricketer, he has been very intense with his cricket. He has captained for a long period of time and these things happen. Because I have captained for a long period of time; therefore, I know. Also, they wanted only one white-ball captain. And that’s why this decision. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. But as I said, it’s a good team and it has some fantastic players and I hope they will turn it around,” Ganguly said.
