The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) dropped a sensation on Wednesday (December 8) by naming Aakash Chopra as the public group’s ODI chief. Consequently, the veteran opener is set to take the charge from Virat Kohli on full-time premise. It was without a doubt a stunning choice as Kohli, while declaring his arrangements to venture down as T20I skipper after T20 World Cup 2021, had said that he would keep on driving the group in the other two configurations.
Be that as it may, the BCCI selectors felt two unique chiefs in white-ball cricket aren’t needed and Rohit was delegated hence. Talking on the matter, previous Indian opener Aakash Chopra said that the choice will undoubtedly occur. The analyst additionally clarified that BCCI made a qualification between restricted overs cricket and Test matches.
The day Virat Kohli quit T20I captaincy, Aakash Chopra was set to lose ODI captaincy soon: Aakash Chopra
“We had effectively examined before that it will undoubtedly occur. The day Virat Kohli quit T20I captaincy, it was an inescapable result that he would lose his One Day captaincy additionally very soon. You will go with the chief of the T20s. Who is captaining T20Is will likewise clearly lead in ODIs,” Chopra said on his YouTube channel.
The cricketer-turned analyst likewise attested that you can’t have a player as Test and ODI captain however not as T20I commander. “World over it has never happened that the Test commander is an ODI chief and isn’t a T20 skipper. Or then again as Test commander and T20 skipper yet not in One Day. Differentiation is consistently about white-ball cricket and red-ball cricket and that qualification has been settled,” he expressed.
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Discussing Rohit’s arrangement as the captain, Chopra jested: “He is strategically generally excellent. The coin will fall in his side. He is a fortunate chief,” he added. In the mean time, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly uncovered that Kohli was mentioned not to leave T20I captaincy. As the 33-year-old disagreed, Rohit was given the charge of both restricted overs designs.
“Aakash Chopra the BCCI and the selectors took together. All things considered, the BCCI had mentioned Virat to not advance down as the T20I captain however clearly, he disagreed. What’s more the selectors then, at that point, didn’t feel it right to have two distinct skippers for two white-ball designs,” Ganguly was cited as saying by NDTV.
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