Gautam Gambhir, the mentor of Lucknow Supergiants opines that the matter between Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli should have been solved behind closed doors. The former Player feels that it should not have come out in the public domain and it is not good for Indian cricket.
The rumors about the rift between Kohli and Ganguly came into the media after the former denied the claims made by BCCI President over the captaincy. Sourav Ganguly said in the media that he personally requested Virat Kohli not to leave Team India’s white-ball captaincy. But, it’s an individual decision and everyone should respect the same.
However, Kohli denied the fact that Ganguly ever requested him to stay Team India’s skipper before he made the announcement about leaving the T20I captaincy. Even, the 33-year-old added that he was not well informed that he was going to be removed from ODI captaincy as well.
And, this all pointed out the rift between Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli. Later on, the latter himself stepped down from Test captaincy as well. This came as a shock for every cricket fan across the globe.
Gautam Gambhir’s upfront opinion on Virat-Ganguly Saga
Now, Gautam Gambhir has opened up saying that everything should have been sorted behind closed doors. He added that this all raised the TRPs of every news channel. As per him, it was not a big issue but was not handled in a mature way.
“I think this could’ve been sorted behind closed doors as well. It was an internal battle. It was a great TRP for a lot of new channels but that’s fine. If you go to the depth of it, the matter can easily be solved. It’s not that big of an issue.”
Gambhir mentioned that Virat Kohli could have easily led Team India in the red-ball cricket. He asserted that the 33-year-old had already stepped down from the T20I captaincy and it was well known that he will have to leave the ODI captaincy as well in that case.
“Honestly, I don’t see any controversy which was created. Talking about captaincy, I think Virat should have continued as red-ball captain. But for white-ball captaincy, once he decided to let go of T20I captaincy, he had to let go of ODI captaincy as well.
“The BCCI and the selectors were right from the white-ball point of view. But it was Virat’s personal decision to step down from Test captaincy, which he should have continued,” added the 2011 World Cup winner.
