The national selectors made the decision to oust Virat Kohli as India’s ODI captain, and the BCCI’s top brass had no previous discussion with him, according to sources who spoke to NDTV.
Prior to India’s impending tour to South Africa, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Wednesday that Rohit Sharma had been named the team’s new one-day international captain. sources to NDTV that national selectors made the decision to oust Virat Kohli as the ODI team’s skipper without consulting him. Sources claim that before Wednesday’s announcement, Kohli, 33, had not been asked to resign as India’s ODI captain.
According to additional information from reliable sources, the decision was made to avoid a split captaincy in white-ball cricket. India named Rohit Sharma as their T20I skipper ahead of the series against New Zealand.
After the completion of the T20 World Cup in 2021, Kohli stated that he would step down as T20I captain.
The prodigious batter claimed that he was relocating to better manage his workload.
The importance of understanding one’s workload cannot be overstated, and given Kohli’s extensive workload over the past eight to nine years in all three formats and as captain for the past five to six years, he believes he needs time to prepare to lead the Indian team in Test and ODI cricket.
South Africa will host India for a series of Test and one-day internationals. Centurion will host the first match of the tour on December 26.
The 2022 T20 World Cup and the 2023 ODI World Cup, both of which will be contested in India, are less than a year and two years away, respectively, away from Rohit being given control of India’s limited-overs teams.
Rohit was promoted to Test vice-captainship at the cost of Ajinkya Rahane, who had been out of form.
