Xtra Time Web Desk : Former World Cup winning India captain Kapil Dev has opened up on the ongoing Kohli-BCCI controversy and requested both sides to sit together in order to resolve all the issues that has been cooking for the past few months.
Earlier back in December, BCCI relinquished Virat Kohli from the ODI Captaincy, a few days after the former Team India captain contradicted board president Sourav Ganguly’s statement about the T20I captaincy. And following that incident, Indian cricket went through a period stiched with controversies before Kohli announced his decision to quit Test Captaincy after series loss to Proteas.
And now, opening up about the matter in a recent interview with The Week, the Haryana Hurricane said, “These days you do not get surprised by much. When he quit the T20I captaincy, one thought perhaps there was too much on his mind. From what we have read and heard, nobody wanted him to give up captaincy (then or now). He is a fantastic player; we should respect his decision,”
“They should have sorted out the issues between them. Pick up the phone, talk to each other, put the country and team before yourself. In the beginning, I also got everything I wanted. But sometimes, you may not get it. That should not mean that you leave the captaincy. If he has left it because of that, then I do not know what to say. He is a fabulous player; (I want to) watch him play so much more and score runs, especially in Test cricket,” added Dev.