New Delhi: ZEE News did a big sting operation on the Chairman of the Selection Committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Chetan Sharma on Tuesday. Sharma disclosed previously hidden truths, including the use of fake fitness injections in Team India, the true reason for the disagreement between Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli, and who is responsible for dropping players from the team. These revelations, captured on Zee Media’s spy camera, may have a profound impact on the BCCI and the International Cricket Council, and may leave fans feeling misled.
Chetan Sharma stated that Virat Kohli “lied” when he informed the media before the South Africa tour that the then BCCI President Sourav Ganguly didn’t attempt to discourage him from resigning as T20 captain after the T20 World Cup in 2021. In 2021, Virat Kohli informed the media that he had been notified by the selectors that he would no longer serve as the team’s ODI captain. The sting operation surfaced on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.
Chetan Sharma said, “Any row between player and BCCI President is dangerous as it becomes players vs BCCI. Who is wrong is judged later, but it becomes an attack on the BCCI directly. All players are warned that the harm from such things will come to players only.”
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Chetan Sharma added, “Virat Kohli felt he lost the captaincy because of the BCCI President. There were 9 people in the selection committee video conference, Ganguly may have told him ‘think about it once’. I think Kohli didn’t hear it, there were 9 others there including myself and all other selectors, BCCI officials — Kohli might not have heard him.”
Chetan Sharma further said, “The press conference before leaving for South Africa was about the team but why he brought the topic of captaincy I don’t know, maybe Kohli did it on purpose. The truth is that Kohli was lying, Ganguly told him to think over it. Why Kohli lied, no one knows till now. It became a controversy, it was Board vs Player. Why he lied, maybe he felt Sourav Ganguly played a big hand in Virat Kohli losing the white-ball captaincy. Don’t say that selectors were favoring Rohit Sharma. You tell people that Virat Kohli was not liked. It is exactly the reverse.”
Chetan Sharma said, “We have to decide who will play for India. We have to decide who is the future of Indian cricket. We call them and ask if they want to play cricket. We directly ask ‘Do you want to play or not’. You don’t want to play? Ok. Thank you. we don’t need you.”
About players taking injections for fitness, Chetan Sharma said, “Indian Cricket Team players take injections & get 100% fit even if they’re 80% fit. These are not painkillers. These injections contain drugs which aren’t caught in the Dope Test.”
Chetan Sharma further said that some star players are given a green signal from the NCA even when they are not fully fit, and then it gets onto the selectors to make a final call on the selection.
Sanju Samson, KL Rahul careers in jeopardy
Sharma disclosed that players are using fake fitness injections and that the BCCI is deliberately overlooking the injected fitness of prominent players. This report sheds light on the board’s disagreement with Team India’s captain, Virat Kohli, and the reason behind the discord. It also discloses how influential players like Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya sway the Chief Selector and how prominent players use breaks to plan their removal from the team.
Chief Selector Chetan Sharma said on a Zee News sting video that Ishan Kishan’s double hundred against Bangladesh in an ODI and Shubman Gill’s sensational white-ball cricket form has put the careers of Sanju Samson, KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan in jeopardy.
Chetan Sharma revealed that former India skipper Virat Kohli started to consider himself ‘bigger than the game’.
Chetan Sharma, the chief selector for India, has gotten himself into trouble when his media sting operation went viral. Chetan Sharma spoke extensively on every hot topic in Indian cricket, from the Virat Kohli-Sourav Ganguly controversy to the Rohit Sharma-Virat Kohli feud, but little did he realise that he was being targeted by a sting operation. The Indian cricket community is currently perplexed by the way in which controversies have developed inside the Indian cricket team. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is reportedly not happy with Sharma and plans to fire him as the national top selector as a result of the explosive sting operation.
According to Sharma, Indian players such as Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya place immense trust in him and have even visited his home. Pandya has been said to visit more frequently than others.
There are two camps, according to Sharma. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are the leaders of each team, respectively.
“I brought in the likes of Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Deepak Hooda, Shubman Gill and other 15-20 players in the team. In the T20I format, strong starters like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are given “rest” to give Shubman Gill an opportunity. He stated that Hardik Pandya would take over as captain in the long run and that Rohit Sharma would no longer be a part of the T20I setup.”
“There is no battle between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma but there is ego. Both are like big film stars, you can say, Amitabh Bachan and Dharmendra.”
“Ganguly did not favour Rohit but he never liked Virat. You can put it in this way. Virat Kohli felt he lost the captaincy because of the BCCI President. There were 9 people in the selection committee video conference, Ganguly may have told him ‘think about it once’. I think Kohli didn’t hear it, there were 9 others there including myself and all other selectors, BCCI officials — Kohli might not have heard him.”
“The press conference ahead of the IND vs SA series where Virat Kohli revealed that he was told 1.30 hours before the declaration that he will be leaving the captaincy was unnecessary. He just wanted to get back at Sourav that’s why he did it.
“During a video conference, Sourav Ganguly commented, in a meeting where there were all people present, including all the selectors, presidents of the board, and myself. It is unclear whether or not Virat heard what Ganguly said, but either way, it is a personal matter between him and Ganguly. It is unclear why Virat brought up the topic during a press conference before going to South Africa as captain. The topic was not relevant to the team’s discussion, and it is unclear why Virat chose to bring it up. The truth is that there was a conversation happening between six to nine people, during which Ganguly made a comment that conflicted with what Virat was saying. It appears that there was a dispute between the board and the player, but it is a personal matter that remains unresolved.”
“No! I am talking about injections. If they take pain-killers then it will come in doping. Team India players are aware about which injections come in anti-doping.”
“Jaspirt Bumrah was unable to bend as he had a major injury other than that there are one or two players who take injections in private and says that they are fit to play”
