Former India skipper and selector Dilip Vengsarkar has opened up about the captaincy saga that has been doing the rounds in Indian cricket after Virat Kohli was sacked from the ODI leadership as well.
Vengsarkar has said that the BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had “no business” of speaking on behalf of the selectors.
“The thing is that Ganguly had no business to speak on behalf of the selection committee. Ganguly is the president of BCCI. Any issue about selection or captaincy, it’s the chairman of the selection committee who should speak,” he said while talking to Khaleej Times.
“Ganguly spoke about the whole thing, obviously, Virat wanted to make his case clear. I believe it should have been between the chairman of the selection committee and the captain. A captain is selected or removed by the selection committee, that’s not Ganguly’s jurisdiction at all.”
Ganguly had said that the selectors weren’t really happy to have a split captaincy in limited-overs cricket as Kohli had decided to leave the post in T20Is post the World Cup.
The former left-handed batsman had further added that he had asked Kohli not to leave the T20I captaincy. However, Kohli, before departing for South Africa had revealed that he was informed of ODI captaincy sacking 90 minutes before the Test squad for South Africa was announced.