BCCI responds to reports claiming two Team India cricketers complained to Jay Shah about Virat Kohli

Mumbai/Bhubaneswar: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) rubbished media reports claiming that certain Team India cricketers complained to the cricket board about captain Virat Kohli.

Many media reports doing the rounds on social media recently claimed that two Indian cricketers called BCCI secretary Jay Shah to complain about Kohli and his captaincy.

Kohli announced on September 16 that he would be stepping down as Team India’s T20 captain after the ICC T20 World Cup later this year. At that time, certain media reports claimed that Kohli had gone to the BCCI selectors to demand Rohit Sharma’s removal as vice captain of the team. Fast forward to September 28, some media outlets claimed that Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara complained to Shah about Kohli.

“The media must stop writing this rubbish. Let me say this on the record that no Indian cricketer has made any complaint to the BCCI – written or verbal. The BCCI can’t keep answering every false report that keeps appearing. The other day, we saw some reports saying there will be changes in India’s World Cup squad. Who said that?” BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal told the Times of India on Wednesday.

“This kind of reporting harms Indian cricket more than anything else. We can understand if senior journalists – who have followed the game for a very long time and tracked it so devotedly – believe the Indian team should do this or do that. That’s an opinion and we respect that. It’s an observation and that’s their job. I myself enjoy reading good reports. But to concoct tales and say this person said this or that person said, without substantiating it, is not done,” Dhumal added.

Kohli will be leading Team India’s T20 side for the final time at the T20 World Cup in UAE and Oman next month.

 

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