It has been a tough time for Indian cricket and because of both on-field and off-field reasons. Virat Kohli last year had decided to step down from the position of India’s T20 skipper and later Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) decided to make Rohit Sharma the new leader of the ODI team as they wanted to have one particular captain for the white-ball cricket.
And recently, just a day after India’s 2-1 Test series defeat against South Africa, Kohli decided to step down as the skipper of the Indian Test team as well. And regarding the captaincy saga a huge tussle has taken place between Kohli and the BCCI in recent times.
Latest reports
Earlier, some reports came out that BCCI president Sourav Ganguly had wanted to send a show-cause notice to Kohli for his comments on the captaincy issue during the press conference that had taken place before the South Africa tour.
During that press conference, Kohli had rejected Ganguly’s claims.
But now it is understood that Ganguly has totally quashed the rumours regarding the show-cause notice, calling it as “Not true.”
According to ANI reports, when Ganguly was asked for a comment on the matter, he outrightly dismissed the recent reports as “Not true.”
Defeat against South Africa
Apart from the off-field issues, in terms on-field matters it has not been a pleasant period of time Indian cricket fans and followers.
After securing a memorable victory in the first Test match against South Africa, it was believed that team India might succeed in winning the three-match Test series but that did not happen in reality as the hosts claimed two back-to-back victories to clinch the Test series.
In the ODI series, under the leadership of KL Rahul, team India lost two Odis and now have no chances left of winning the ODi series as well.
In the first ODI, India lost the match by 31 runs. Batting first, the Proteas registered a total of 296 for 4 wickets and in reply, Indian team could manage to reach a total of 265 runs losing 8 wickets.
In the second fixture of the series, batting first, the visitors scored 287 runs in 50 overs. But South Africa chased the target successfully with 11 balls remaining to claim a 7-wicket victory.
