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Xtra Time Web Desk: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday announced Rohit Sharma as the captain of Team India in ODI format, replacing Virat Kohli. The announcement has created a huge buzz in the Indian cricket fraternity. Former cricketers, fans have been slamming BCCI for removing Kohli from the ODI captaincy. And now, Kohli's childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma has expressed his views over the white ball captaincy issue.

In a recent interview with Khelneeti Podcast, the Delhi based coach said, "I haven't talked to him (Virat Kohli) yet. His phone is switched off for some reason. But as far as my opinion is concerned, he had specifically stepped down from T20 captaincy and the selectors should've straightaway asked him to step down from both the white-ball formats, or not step down at all,"

Speaking about BCCI President Sourav Ganguly's recent statements, Sharma added, "I read Sourav Ganguly's comments recently that they had asked Kohli to not step down from T20I captaincy (before the World Cup). I don't recall anything like that. This statement came as a surprise to me. There are different statements circulating around,"

The 56 year old further took a dig at the BCCI selection committee and said, "The selection committee doesn't provide a reason behind the decision. We don't know what the management or the BCCI or the selectors want. There's no clarification, no transparency at all. It's a pity how this has happened. He has been such a successful one-day captain.”