Adding the latest chapter to the debate over Rohit Sharma’s India captaincy and defending Virat Kohli for Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) poor show in the Indian Premier League (IPL), former India starter Aakash Chopra said on Friday that did not see a change in captaincy from the Indian team.
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Chopra also wondered if Sharma would have won IPL titles if he was leading the RCB instead of Kohli. With this, he defended Kohli for his team’s failure to win a single IPL title and his Indian team captaincy in all three formats: Trials, One-Day Internationals and T20 Internationals.
“Gautam Gambhir [a former Delhi teammate of Chopra] believes it is a disgrace for the nation if Rohit Sharma is not named captain of the Indian T20I because he is the most successful captain in the IPL, “Chopra said in a video shared on his Facebook page.
“But I have a question, if Rohit was given the RCB team, which is there with Kohli, will he have won two, three or four of the five titles MI has won?” He asked himself .
Sharma was initially ruled out by the national selectors for the Australian tour, apparently for physical fitness reasons. Despite the alleged hamstring injury, Sharma led the Mumbai Indians (MI) to their fifth IPL title on Tuesday.
Later, surprisingly, the selectors changed their minds and chose Sharma for the four-game test series against Australia, to be played in December-January. But they did not select it for the ODI and T20 series that preceded the Trials.
“Rohit as captain is outstanding, I love him to pieces, but can the success story of the Mumbai Indians be equated with that of India? That is my question. The fact that Kohli’s team does not do well, means it’s Kohli’s fault, “he said. Chopra.
Sharma has captained India in shorter formats whenever Kohli has been absent.
“They can’t make him captain no matter how hard you try. I know it’s not fair; I know it’s difficult. But this is what it is. It can’t happen now because there’s a simple reason for that,” Chopra said. .
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“First of all, he’s not going now, he’s not even in shape. There’s a separate mystery as to when he’s going to get in shape. If he’s in shape on 10, why isn’t he in shape on 27? They’re backwards in this moment, “he said.
Chopra said he does not see a change in the captaincy of India as of now.
“There are not too many T20 games at the moment. Let’s wait a while, let’s be calm, he can’t become the captain now. Kohli is the captain now and I don’t feel like there is going to be a captaincy.” change on this team now, “he said.
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