The past few days have been quite tense as far as Indian cricket goes. The sacking of Virat Kohli as ODI captain followed by the unconfirmed reports that he may skip the white-ball series on South Africa tour have given rise to various speculations. One of those is his apparent discontent at the manner in which the ODI captaincy was taken away from him and handed over to Rohit Sharma who now is the designated white-ball captain having earlier appointed as the T20I skipper too.
What has made the matters intriguing is the face that Rohit won’t be part of the Test series in South Africa having picked up an injury during a training session. There are also reports that he may get fit for the ODI-leg of the tour though.
Then there’s the small matter of an apparent rift between Kohli and Rohit. To those following Indian cricket closely in the past few years, this isn’t a news as such reports from sources keep on sprouting consistently.
However, Kohli could put a full-stop to all those speculations (or not) when he addresses the media today ahead of departing for South Africa where he will lead India in the three-match Test series starting December 26.
