It Isn't About Rohit Sharma, It's About The Way Virat Kohli Was Sacked

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"The All-India Senior Selection Committee also decided to name Mr. Rohit Sharma as the Captain of the ODI & T20I teams going forward." And that's it. No press releases, no press conference not even the ODI squad for South Africa tour, just in these two lines, BCCI announced Rohit as the limited-overs captain. 

Who did he replace? Surely not the captain with the fourth-best win percentage(68.4) - 65 wins out of 95 matches (minimum 50 ODIs) among all captains, globally. Surely BCCI would have at least released a note thanking the sacked captain for his contribution but it's too much for the Sourav Ganguly-led management. 

The All-India Senior Selection Committee also decided to name Mr Rohit Sharma as the Captain of the ODI & T20I teams going forward.#TeamIndia | @ImRo45 pic.twitter.com/hcg92sPtCa

— BCCI (@BCCI) December 8, 2021

After Virat Kohli signed up his boots from the T20 captaincy in September, it was inevitable that a new ODI captain will be announced soon, and it will be Rohit Sharma was also more or less confirmed. 

In several media reports, Kohli was given a 48 hour time to himself announce that he will be leaving the ODI captaincy and on the 49th hour, Rohit go appointed. Surely Kohli had done something terrible. What could possibly have gone wrong with BCCI and Kohli that they ended his successful captaincy regime without even mentioning his name and ended the note with "All-India Senior Selection Committee also decided to name Mr. Rohit Sharma as the Captain of the ODI & T20I teams going forward."

Maybe when we accuse captains of their 'lack of communication' during a team's loss, we condemn BCCI for not being transparent while taking a decision as big as Virat Kohli's name in World Cricket.