Sourav Ganguly Was Keen On Serving Show Cause Notice To Virat Kohli After Last Month's Press Conference - Reports

The BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had made up his mind to issue show cause notice to Indian batter, Virat Kohli after the latter dropped a few bombs in the pre-match press conference before traveling to South Africa.

Kohli had said that he wasn’t asked to continue as captain and his decision to step down as the T20I captain was in fact, welcomed by the board members.

This directly contradicted Ganguly’s claim that he ‘personally’ went to Kohli and asked him to continue as the skipper in all formats. After he gave up T20I captaincy, Kohli was unceremoniously removed as the ODI captain and the reins were handed to Rohit Sharma.

Sourav Ganguly reportedly drafted a letter ahead of Test series

A hurt Ganguly had convinced himself to draft a letter and also discussed the matter with the board members, as per a report published in India Today. However, the level-headed BCCI members thought otherwise and didn’t approve the same.

“And the board president was all for issuing a show-cause notice to Kohli,” the source was quoted as saying to India Ahead.

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In a major revelation in the whole #SouravGanguly & #ViratKohli saga, it has been now learnt that the #BCCI Prez wanted to issue a show cause notice to the then India Test captain before the beginning of the series against South Africa in December 2021.

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– IANS (@IANS) 20 Jan 2022

In addition, Kohli contacted the BCCI secretary Jay Shah to inform him about his decision to quit as the Test captain. He didn’t convey the news directly to Ganguly, indicative of a possible rift between the two after the comments in the press conference.

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