{"id":234581,"date":"2021-12-17T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T10:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=234581"},"modified":"2021-12-17T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:44:42","slug":"sourav-ganguly-virat-kohli-bcci-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/sourav-ganguly-virat-kohli-bcci-captaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourav Ganguly on Virat Kohli&#8217;s captaincy remarks: Let&#8217;s not take this further, BCCI will deal with it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Indian captain and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Friday said that he has nothing to say on Virat Kohli press conference that it&#8217;s a matter of BCCI and the board will deal with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on December 15, before leaving for the South Africa tour, the Indian Test team captain Virat Kohli, during his press conference had said that he was not properly communicated by the BCCI. As per Virat Kohli, the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) informed Virat Kohli just 90 minutes before sacking him from the ODI captaincy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kohli also contradicted Ganguly statement when the BCCI president had said that the board tried to convince him to not leave the T20 captaincy. The star batsman said that he was not told by anyone to not leave the T20 captaincy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let&#39;s not take this further. I have nothing to speak. This is a BCCI matter and it will deal with it: BCCI President Sourav Ganguly in Kolkata on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ViratKohli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ViratKohli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UtkBkBjpRW\">pic.twitter.com\/UtkBkBjpRW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1471775942557122561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, Virat Kohli who was a captain in all formats of the Indian team stepped down from T20 captaincy after the T20 World Cup 2021, and he clearly mentioned in his press release that he will continue to lead the team in the ODI and Test cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/virat-kohli-video-teammates-bcci-south-africa\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/virat-kohli-video-teammates-bcci-south-africa\/\">Virat Kohli shares fun moment with teammates teases Ishant Sharma on way to Jo\u2019Burg in South Africa: WATCH video here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/author\/apnnewsdesk\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, out of nowhere on December 8, while announcing the test squad for the South Africa tour, BCCI sacked Virat Kohli from the ODI captaincy and named Rohit Sharma as the new captain to lead the Men in Blue in white-ball cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Virat Kohli press conference, there is not any clarification or reply on the ongoing controversy. As per reports, BCCI is not taking any strict decision, considering the test series against South Africa, because it might affect the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;BCCI Will Deal With It&quot; Says Sourav Gangly When Asked About Virat Kohli&#039;s Captaincy Rift\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/22DlA9IsY5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian captain and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Friday said that he has nothing to say on Virat Kohli press conference that it&#8217;s a matter of BCCI and the board will deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":233015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sourav Ganguly on Virat Kohli's captaincy remarks: Let's not take this further, BCCI will deal with it\n\n#ViratKohli #SouravGanguly #Kohli #BCCI #Ganguly ","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,6],"tags":[761,102468,114284,1919,2024,115215,115077,115213,115214],"yst_prominent_words":[21259,81941,7507,27713,10572,23232,14183,7508,7520],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/12\/15164833\/Sourav-Ganguly-Virat-Kohli.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234581"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=234581"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=234581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->