India coach Rahul Dravid refuses to speak about Kohli-Ganguly saga: Not the place, time to debate that

India head coach Rahul Dravid refused to open up on the alleged Virat Kohli-Sourav Ganguly saga, saying this isn’t the suitable time or place to be discussing that. Dravid mentioned that any inside dialog he may need had with the selectors about Virat Kohli’s white-ball captaincy is just not for public consumption.

It has been a conference that the Indian captain addresses the media forward of the opening Test match of a collection nevertheless it was Dravid who took the questions forward of the ‘Boxing Day Test in opposition to South Africa. Kohli had determined to surrender the management function within the Twenty20 format and later he was changed by Rohit Sharma within the One-day format too.Kohli in an explosive press convention had contradicted Ganguly’s feedback, saying that he wasn’t informed to proceed because the T20I captain, in contrast to what the BCCI president mentioned in a latest interview. Ganguly claimed that he personally requested the Delhi batter to not give up because the T20I skipper, however Kohli denied having any such dialog with any BCCI official.”To be honest, that’s the role of the selectors and I am not going to get into conversations that I might or might not have had,” when requested if he had given his opinion on a change of white ball captaincy.”It’s not the place and the time to be doing that and discussing that. And what internal conversations I have had is certainly not going to come out in the media and I am not going to start telling people what conversations I have had,” Dravid mentioned in a polite-yet-firm method.When Kohli spoke to the media 10 days again in regards to the change in captaincy, it snowballed into an enormous storm as he had brazenly contradicted claims of BCCI president Sourav Ganguly that he was requested to proceed as T20 captain as there cannot be two white ball captains.Kohli had mentioned that nobody in BCCI informed him to not give up the T20 captaincy and it created an unsightly controversy.’Virat is unbelievable as a frontrunner’Dravid, himself a former India captain, nonetheless, praised Kohli for his ardour for Test cricket and hoped that he would do properly on this collection.”Virat has played a huge role in that obviously as a player and a leader. He has been fantastic. He is one of those players who loves Test cricket and really wants to compete.”Hopefully, he has an important collection that advantages the crew as properly,” Dravid mentioned when requested how does he see Kohli taking the Test crew ahead.