Ever since Team India skipper Virat Kohli announced his decision to step down as T20 captain, there has been reports claiming that some senior players complained about Kohli's attitude to BCCI and he was asked to step down as captain. According to reports, it was veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin who revolted against Kohli while some reports claimed it was Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara who complained against Kohli.
But BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal on Wednesday rejected such reports and told Times of India, “The media must stop writing this rubbish. Let me say this on the record that no Indian cricketer has made any complaint to the BCCI – writte or verbal. The BCCI can’t keep answering every false report that keeps appearing. The other day, we saw some reports saying there will be changes in India’s World Cup squad. Who said that?”
Several reports have been published recently claiming that senior players were unhappy with Kohli’s captaincy and they approached the BCCI with their grievances against the star batter.
“This kind of reporting harms Indian cricket more than anything else. We can understand if senior journalists – who have followed the game for a very long time and tracked it so devotedly – believe the Indian team should do this or do that. That’s an opinion and we respect that. It’s an observation and that’s their job. I myself enjoy reading good reports. But to concoct tales and say this person said this or that person said, without substantiating it, is not done,” Dhumal added.
