India head coach Rahul Dravid on Saturday refused to divulge details of any internal talks he had with the selectors on Virat Kohli’s white-ball captaincy, saying it is not for public consumption.
It has been a tradition that the Indian captain addresses the media before the opening Test match of a series, but it was Dravid who took the questions ahead of the Boxing Day Test against South Africa.
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Kohli had decided to give up the leadership role in the Twenty20 format and was later replaced by Rohit Sharma in the one-day format as well.
When asked if he has given his opinion on the change in captaincy of the white ball, to be honest, it is the role of the selectors and I am not going into talks that I may or may not have.
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“This is not the place and time to do this and discuss that. And the internal conversations I’ve had are definitely not going to come up in the media and I’m not going to start telling people what I’ve talked about. It is,” said Dravid in a polite and firm manner.
When Kohli spoke to the media 10 days ago about the change in captaincy, it turned into a big storm as he openly denied BCCI President Sourav Ganguly’s claims that he should continue as T20 captain. Was asked for because there cannot be two white-ball captains. ,
Kohli had said that nobody in the BCCI asked him not to give up the T20 captaincy and it created an ugly controversy.
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Dravid, himself a former India captain, praised Kohli for his passion for Test cricket and hoped that he would do well in the series.
“Virat has clearly played a huge role as a payer and a leader. He’s been superb. He is one of those players who love Test cricket and really want to compete.
When Dravid was asked how he sees Kohli taking the Test team forward, Dravid said, “Hopefully he will have a great series which will benefit the team as well.”
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