Published: Feb 14, 2023, 07:40 PM (IST)
Edited: Feb 14, 2023, 11:54 PM (IST)
New Delhi: The Chairman of BCCI’s selection committee, Chetan Sharma made a shocking revelation about Indian players taking fake injections to reduce the time of their recovery in a sting operation conducted by Zee News.
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BCCI’s Chief Selector also made some shocking revelations about players like Jasprit Bumrah who were rushed to play despite not being completely fit, which made their condition much worse.
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Chetan Sharma even exposed the ego rift between Virat Kohli and then BCCI chairman Sourav Ganguly. He even said that Virat Kohli did the press conference as he thought he was losing captaincy because of Ganguly
BCCI Chief Selector also revealed a shocking tale and told that Sourav Ganguly didn’t like Virat Kohli and Virat used to believe and even blamed the selection committee and Sourav Ganguly for losing his captaincy. He even said that Ganguly didn’t like Virat but never favoured Rohit Sharma in any manner.
In the sting operation, you can also see Chetan Sharma telling that it was not Ganguly who took the ODI captaincy from Virat Kohli. It was due to the fact that Virat relinquished the T20I captaincy and BCCI wanted the same white-ball skipper not a different one for the ODIs.
“Any row between player and BCCI President is dangerous as it becomes players vs BCCI. Out of this who is wrong is judged later, but it becomes an attack on BCCI directly. All players are warned that the harm will come to players only,” Chetan Sharma was caught saying in sting operation conducted by Zee News.
“Virat Kohli felt he lost the captaincy because of BCCI President. There were 9 people in the selection committee video conference, Ganguly may have told him ‘think about it once’. I think Kohli didn’t hear it, there were 9 others there including myself and all other selectors, BCCI officials – Kohli might not have heard him
“The PC before leaving for South Africa is about the team but why he bought the topic of captaincy I don’t know, maybe Kohli did it on purpose. The truth is Kohli was lying, Ganguly told him to think over it. Why Kohli lied, no one knows till now. It became a controversy, it was Board vs Player.
“Why he lied, maybe he felt Sourav Ganguly played a big hand in Virat Kohli losing the white-ball captaincy,” he added.
Chetan Sharma was further seen talking about the clash of egos between India’s current and ex-skipper, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, and how they supported each other despite that. He also talked about Hardik Pandya taking over Rohit as the T20I captain in the longer run.
He said in the T20I format, strong starters like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are given “rest” to give Shubman Gill an opportunity. He stated that Hardik Pandya would take over as captain in the long run and that Rohit Sharma would no longer be a part of the T20I setup.
“There is no battle between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma but there is ego. Both are like big film stars you can say, Amitabh Bachan and Dharmendra,” he added.
He also revealed how he helped some young guns get their place inside the Indian cricket team and said “I brought in the likes of Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Shubman Gill and other 15-20 players in the team.”
