Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has made a sensational revelation over the politics in Indian cricket as he claimed that Sourav Ganguly forced Ravi Shastri to resign from the head coach role.

Quite a few things happened for Indian cricket in the last few months. Virat Kohli resigned from the T20I captaincy after the T20 World Cup and also Ravi Shastri decided not to renew his contract at the conclusion of the T20 World Cup. Rahul Dravid replaced him as the new head coach. Then right before the South Africa tour, Virat Kohli was sacked as ODI captain.

Ravi Shastri’ coaching contract expired at the conclusion of the T20 World Cup

Then in a pre-departure press conference ahead of the South Africa tour, Virat Kohli opened up on the whole issue which revealed the sour relations between him and BCCI.

Rashid Latif believes that there is a lot of politics involved in all this as Indian cricket is going like Pakistan cricket of old. He feels that it’s the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly who is calling the shots.

“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,“ Rashid Latif spoke in a video on Youtube.

“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,” he added.

Right after the test series loss against South Africa, Virat Kohli dropped the bombshell as he stepped down from Test captaincy as well. Latif believes that it’s all because the team has formed into two groups. Latif also has doubts if Rohit Sharma can carry himself for long with his fitness level.

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“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 concluded.

Rohit Sharma will lead India in the limited-overs series against West Indies starting on February 6 and Kohli has also been included in both T20I and ODI squads.

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