Aakash Chopra, the former Indian opening batter, has shared his opinion on the possibility of Virat Kohli returning as India Test captain once again and said that no one had asked him to leave in the first place.
Kohli, the most successful Indian Test captain, who kept the team at the no.1 position in Test rankings for 5 consecutive years, relinquished the captain in January 2022 after India lost the three-Test series to South Africa in the rainbow nation.
Currently, Rohit Sharma is the captain of the Indian team in Tests and ODIs, but at 36 years of age and given his fitness concerns, the BCCI is left with a lot of soul-searching to do as they aim to build for the future, especially in Test cricket.
The decision to appoint Ajinkya Rahane back as the Indian Test team vice-captain was criticized by multiple former India cricketers including Sourav Ganguly and Sunil Gavaskar.
India is likely to need a new Test captain in the future, but there is a lack of a standout contender, thanks to the injury issues of Jasprit Bumrah and Rishabh Pant.
However, rumors are floating that 34-year-old Virat Kohli might be asked to become Test skipper once again. But ex-Indian opening batter Aakash Chopra has shot down the idea of him returning to the top post.
"He can be made but he won't be and maybe that's the right thing as well because no one asked him to leave Test captaincy. This thing has been cleared multiple times from different quarters that no one said that he won't remain the Test captain.
In fact, when he took this decision that he won't remain the captain, the BCCI was taken aback slightly that what happened, that they will have to search for a captain. So that was a slightly different thing, but not now,” said Chopra on his YouTube channel.
Virat Kohli captained India in Tests from 2014-2022 in 68 matches and won 40 of them.
