The former India star batter Gautam Gambhir mince no words when it comes to giving his opinion. And this time he talks up on the Virat & BCCI row which has remained the hot topic since its inception.
Virat and BCCI controversy has sparked immense debate in world cricket after the former stepped down from white-ball captaincy. Post the Test series defeat in South Africa, Kohli relinquished his Test captaincy as well. Gambhir, who is not known for reserving his opinion, believes that things could've been sorted behind the closed doors without creating any hullabaloo as it was an internal problem and not a big issue.
“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 told Times Now.
Kohli had revealed that he wasn’t informed earlier about his sacking from ODI captaincy while Ganguly had different views on it which turned out to be an altercation. With all the heat around the topic, India lost the Test series to South Africa 1-2 and Kohli stepped down from the longer format captaincy as well which came as a big surprise for everyone.
“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," Gambhir further added.
Meanwhile on Monday (January January 31), citing Mahendra Singh Dhoni as example, Virat Kohli said one doesn’t need to be a captain of a team to be a leader and now that he is not the India skipper, he might contribute more as the side’s batting mainstay.
“Everything has a tenure and time period. You obviously have to be aware of that. People might say ‘what this guy has done’ but you know when you think of moving forward and achieving more, you feel like you have done your job," Virat had said.
