THE biggest development was buried at the bottom of the BCCI’s press release announcing the Test squad for the South Africa tour. For the first time since 2005, the senior selection panel of the BCCI, has removed an incumbent as ODI captain. Ever since Virat Kohli gave up his T20 captaincy citing workload, all things have been pointing towards him losing the ODI role too and the selectors, with the full-backing of the BCCI, took the bold step on Wednesday. Going forward, Kohli will remain captain only in Tests and Rohit Sharma will lead the team in white-ball cricket, apart from being the vice-captain in long format.
The decision in itself isn’t surprising, as teams rarely have two different captains for white-ball cricket. Moreover, it is reliably learnt that when Rohit accepted the T20 captaincy, he did so on the precondition that he would get to lead in ODIs too. However, right through this period, Kohli is understood to have made no intentions of stepping down as ODI skipper. Having relinquished T20 captaincy citing workload and following it up by stepping down as Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper, he believed these factors would keep in good stead to lead the team in ODIs and Tests.
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