No Cricketer Has Made Any Complaint Against Virat Kohli To Us: BCCI Treasurer Dhumal

Mumbai: After reports surfaced that two senior Team India batters had called BCCI Secretary Jay Shah complaining about Virat Kohli’s captaincy, BCCI Treasurer Arun Dhumal, however, has ridiculed the said talks.

Initially, it was suggested that Ashwin had gone to speak to top BCCI officials on Kohli’s leadership issues and recently, reports surfaced that Rahane and Pujara were asked by Board Secretary Jay Shah to take his decision on Kohli’s captaincy. Also Read: 2 India Batters Called Jay Shah Complaining About Virat Kohli After WTC Final: Reports

Putting an end to the rumours, Dhumal said that no player, senior or junior, came before the BCCI regarding Kohli’s captaincy. Despite rumours on the internet, no player has filed a written or oral complaint against the captain in the past few days.

“The media must stop writing this rubbish. Let me say this on the record that no Indian cricketer has made any complaint to the BCCI – written or verbal. The BCCI can’t keep answering every false report that keeps appearing,” BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal was quoted as saying the Times of India on Wednesday.

In the last few days, there was talk of many senior players being unhappy with Kohli’s captaincy. Some names also appeared in some media reports but no complaint has been received from any BCCI office or official in this matter. Actually, Dhumal said that such rumours only harm Indian cricket.

“This kind of reporting harms Indian cricket more than anything else. We can understand if senior journalists – who have followed the game for a very long time and tracked it so devotedly – believe the Indian team should do this or do that. That’s an opinion and we respect that. It’s an observation and that’s their job. I myself enjoy reading good reports. But to concoct tales and say this person said this or that person said, without substantiating it, is not done,” Dhumal added.

Soon after Kohli announced his step down as the captain of India’s T20 team after the upcoming T20 World Cup, rumours of the BCCI wanting him to relinquish the responsibility surfaced. Some even went so far as to say that India’s head coach Ravi Shastri had asked Kohli to step down from white-ball captaincy a few months back.

Be it Kohli or the players whose names were mentioned in the rumours have not spoken anything over the matter yet. With the BCCI treasurer deciding to put the record straight, it is now clear that the rumours were without any substance.

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