Former Pakistan cricketer Rashid Latif has commented on Team India's current situation. The Indian cricket team is going through a transition after the T20 World Cup 2021.
Ravi Shastri's stint as India's head coach ended with the conclusion of the T20 World Cup 2021. Ex-India captain Rahul Dravid took over the coaching role in India's senior team.
BCCI had then decided to remove Virat Kohli as India's ODI captain after he gave up the T20I captaincy. Now, Kohli also quit the captaincy role in Test following the Test series loss against South Africa.
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"All this began happening when Anil Kumble was wrongly removed as coach. Ravi Shastri had taken no coaching courses and yet he directly took entry as the coach. This was a strong group – Kumble had over 600 wickets and Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid were his teammates. This trio is very strong," Latif said in a video on YouTube.
Although Shastri had already confirmed that he won't continue as India's head coach, Latif believes it was BCCI President Sourav Ganguly's decision to not continue with him.
"By all means, Ganguly told Shastri 'boss, it's time to go' even if Shastri had considered continuing as a coach. This whole thing has been building up since before the T20 World Cup, these are personal attacks and it has impacted Indian cricket. What happened with Pakistan in the early 1990s is happening today with Indian cricket," Latif opined.
The ex-Pakistan cricketer further said that the off-field tiffs have affected Indian cricket. Recently, the KL Rahul-led side lost 3-0 in the ODI series against South Africa.
"Such off-field tensions hamper the performances of the team and that is exactly what has happened. Who was sitting with Kohli? Siraj, on the left. On his right, there were players who nobody knew. That picture stated it all. KL Rahul cannot handle the team, and it remains to be seen how Rohit Sharma maintains his fitness if he is to be the man to usher Indian cricket into the future," he said.
