My communication was clear to the BCCI and the decision was in their hands,” Kohli added. “I told them that I wanted to continue leading in Tests and ODIs unless the office-bearers and selectors feel that I should not. “Whatever is said about the communication that happened when the decision (to quit T20I captainship) was made was inaccurate,” Kohli said, contradicting Ganguly’s claim on Sunday that he had personally reached out to Kohli and asked him to stay. Kohli made it clear that he was never persuaded to stay on at T20I skipper by anyone in the Board that he did not say he was going to opt out of the ODI series in South Africa and that his sacking as one-day captain was sudden and unceremonious - during the fag end of a phone call with the selectors about 90 minutes before they were to pick the Indian team. And, perhaps more crucially, that he was treated by the Board in a manner that no one - definitely not a player and captain with a record as impressive as his - ought to be. In a scheduled press interaction that started off in a frustratingly benign manner - as pre-series media briefings often do - Kohli, matter-of-factly but with the fluency usually seen in his batting, indicated that his version of events in the captaincy musical chairs between him and Rohit Sharma were in stark in contrast to those of Ganguly’s.
So what if his comments were in direct contradiction to those made by Sourav Ganguly, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). But it plunged into a dramatic and unlikely crisis on Wednesday when Virat Kohli, the talisman of this generation, and until last month India’s sole captain across all three formats, stepped out of his crease determined to set the record straight. Indian cricket has been in turmoil before: player vs player, player vs captain, captain vs coach, captain vs selector.
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