Dismissing All Past Rumors, Virat Kohli And Co. Agreeable to Play Day-Night Test Matches
Mumbai: During the selection meeting for the Bangladesh series, dismissing all the past rumors and reports, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly said India skipper Virat Kohli is “agreeable” to playing Day-Night Test matches.
Ganguly has been vocal about India playing Day-Night Tests to reignite the interest of spectators in cricket’s longer format. On Thursday, Ganguly met Kohli and India’s limited-overs vice-captain Rohit Sharma in Mumbai and it is believed that he spoke to them about the Day-Night Tests.
Sourav further said, “We all are thinking about this. We will do something about this. I am a big believer in Day-Night Tests. Kohli is agreeable to it. I see a lot of reports in newspapers that he is not, but that is not true. The game needs to go forward and that is the way forward. People should finish work and come to watch champions play. I don’t know when that will happen, but it will.”
When reporters asked BCCI’s President about the road map of going forward he replied, “The team has done well, we might not have won big tournaments. So roadmap will happen with time. Indian cricket has a good structure and it has money.”
Meanwhile, Ganguly compared IPL with English Football League EPL he said, “The IPL is the biggest league in the world, like EPL. It is in no way inferior to the EPL in terms of eyeballs and the way it’s run.
Further, he added, “My job is to help cricketers at all levels, first-class cricketers. My ambition is to make sure players who don’t get to play for India, get the facilities. One of my ambitions is also to make cricket credible and clean.“I don’t know about my time frame, but by the time I leave all those who take over will be able to say he has left a healthy system behind.”
On not getting the best players to work with him at BCCI due to Conflict of Interest issues, Ganguly said: “I can’t change that. We have to request the Supreme Court to do that. It’s being done, the status report has been filed and they said it needs to be relooked at. The conflict has to be sensible. We need to keep that simple and I will take that forward. I don’t want to lose big players.”
Ganguly believes the relationship between President of BCCI and Virat Kohli should be smooth and for the betterment of Indian cricket. He added, “It has to be a very good one. People don’t see what happens inside.”
Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and like us on Facebook for the latest updates and interesting stories.
