Sunny says Sourav should clear air on captaincy row

New Delhi, Dec. 16: The legendary Sunil Gavaskar feels Sourav Ganguly is the best person to clear the air on Virat Kohli’s contradictory statement on the issue of captaincy, saying the BCCI president “surely should be asked” how the difference in perception arose.

Days after Kohli quit T20I captaincy, Ganguly said that the BCCI had asked him to reconsider his decision. Kohli had, however, contradicted Ganguly’s statement during his explosive press conference on Wednesday ahead of departure for the South Africa Test series.

“I think it (Kohli’s comment) actually doesn’t bring the BCCI into the picture. I think it’s the individual who has to be asked where he got the impression he had conveyed such a message to Kohli,” Gavaskar told India Today.

“Yes, he (Ganguly) is the BCCI president and surely he should be asked why there is this discrepancy. He is probably the best person to ask about the discrepancy in what you seem to have to say and what the Indian captain has said,” he added.

Kohli said his removal from ODI captaincy happened 90 minutes before the team’s selection for the South Africa tour but Gavaskar felt there was nothing wrong on the part of selection committee chairman Chetan Sharma on that count. “As long as it’s not something that he (Kohli) has not found out from the media or as it happened in the past that the commander of a passenger flight announced it. I think that is absolutely okay. As long as there has been communication between the chairman of selection committee and him, it’s the decent thing to do,” he added. —

Ganguly is the BCCI president and surely he should be asked why there is this discrepancy in what you seem to have said and what the Indian captain has said.

SUNIL GAVASKAR former India captain