Venkatesh Prasad and Aakash Chopra's battle on Twitter gets intensified

image-leehijtgKL Rahul and Virat Kohli (Source: AP Newsroom)

The recent controversy involving KL Rahul has been hitting the headlines for a while as his performance has dipped in the past year or so with some voices from the cricketing fraternity asking for his dropping.

Moreover, former Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad's recent Tweets where he was furious about the favouritism Rahul was getting from the management raised eyebrows. It became more interesting when current commentator and former batter Aakash Chopra stood for Rahul and rejected Prasad's opinion.

Now, Chopra made a claim in his video where he called Prasad's opinion a kind of agenda. This has left the former pacer fuming and Tweet further against the broadcaster.

In his series of Tweets, Venkatesh lambasted the 45-year-old for calling him an agenda peddler by quoting his Tweet from 2012 where he talked about Rohit Sharma.

Not just this, he made some serious allegations in six Tweets where he talked about how his problem is with unfair selection rather than a particular player.

"I have nothing against KL or any other player, my voice has been against unfair selection and different yardsticks for performers. Be it Sarfaraz or Kuldeep, have voiced based on merit. But it was disappointing to see Aakash calling it personal agenda,"


The right-armer argued regarding how Chopra backed Ajinkya Rahane rather than Rohit Sharma in 2012 when he was still a young player in the side.

"And the argument that we should not criticise a player in an ongoing match personally doesn’t make sense to me. That doesn’t affect the players performance. Most players don’t read views even after the match and no player can read in between match as phones are deposited."


However, after all this, Aakash replied to Venky back asking him for a straightway talk on his Youtube channel where they could discuss the entire matter.

But after reading this, Prasad straightway denied his proposal as he doesn't wish to engage in any kind of talks with him.

The battle has greatly intensified and it remains to be seen if the management sticks with Rahul in the next game or if they give chance to young Shubman Gill when the side strides to play in the third Test that will begin on 1st March in Indore.