Queries raised on Virat Kohli’s selection: former BCCI secretary disclosed

Delhi: Indian cricket team veteran batsman Virat Kohli announced to retire from Test cricket on Monday, May 12. He announced the end of his 123 Tests long journey from an Instagram post. An interesting thing has now come to light about the first selection of Kohli, who played so many Tests for India.

Dilip Vengsarkar selected Kohli

Sanjay Jagdale, former Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and a member of the selection committee, said that Kohli’s decision should be respected. He remembered that when Kohli was first selected in the Indian team, many people criticized this decision.

Jagdale told that at that time Dilip Vengsarkar was the head of the selection committee. He saw Kohli scoring a brilliant century in the Emerging Players tournament in Australia and was very impressed by his performance. Vengsarkar had told the rest of the selectors that this boy is very talented and should get a chance in Team India.

Questions arose on Kohli’s selection

Jagdale admitted that he had not seen Kohli’s game at that time, but on Vengsarkar’s suggestion, the entire committee had agreed to include Kohli in the ODI team. However, many people had also questioned that it is not right to give a chance at such a young age.

Kohli started his international career against Sri Lanka on 18 August 2008. Jagdale said, “At that time some people had criticized by saying that it is not right to send such a young player on an international tour. But. The same Kohli later joined India’s most successful batsmen.”

Jagdale says that Kohli had confidence and aggression from the beginning. He described Kohli as India’s best batsman in all three formats after Sachin Tendulkar. He said, “To say goodbye to Test cricket is Kohli’s personal decision and should be respected. But at the same time he also admitted that it would not be easy to fill Kohli’s empty space.”

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