“Made Him The Captain Because…”: Sourav Ganguly Opens Up On Decision To Replace Virat Kohli With Rohit Sharma

Former BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has opened up on his determination to switch Virat Kohli with Rohit Sharma because the captain of the Indian males’s cricket workforce. Rohit changed Virat because the full-time captain of India after the latter stepped down from his position in Exams and T20Is in 2022. Again then, Ganguly was the BCCI chief and there have been stories of a attainable rift between him and Kohli. Ganguly had earlier revealed that the BCCI had requested Kohli to rethink his determination to step down as T20I captain.

On the choice to switch Kohli, the previous India captain Ganguly mentioned that he noticed big potential in Rohit, contemplating his document within the Indian Premier League.

Rohit took India to the World Cup closing final yr on house soil, solely to go down within the closing hurdle towards Australia.

Ganguly advised that India have been the very best workforce within the event and added that he was not shocked by the way in which Rohit led India in the course of the showpiece occasion.

“Take a look at the way in which he captained within the World Cup. Taking India to the ultimate. I feel India was the very best workforce within the competitors until they misplaced the ultimate. So he is an efficient captain, IPL trophies. I’m not shocked by the way in which he led. He grew to become the captain once I was the BCCI president, and I’m not shocked by the way in which he has led the workforce. I made him the Indian captain as a result of I noticed the expertise in him, and I’m not shocked by what he has executed,” Ganguly instructed RevSportz.

Rohit just lately led India to a seventeenth straight Check sequence win on house soil. After shedding the sequence opener towards England in Hyderabad, India now lead 3-1 within the sequence with the ultimate sport in Dharamsala from March 7.

In the meantime, Rohit just lately misplaced his captaincy to Hardik Pandya at Mumbai Indians. Hardik, who was with Gujarat Titans for the previous two seasons, will lead the five-time champions this time round.

He was traded by MI from GT forward of the IPL 2024 public sale, with Shubman Gill set to guide the 2022 champions after his departure.