BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary urged critics to understand Virat Kohli’s intent of doing well in England Tests rather than criticising him for not playing the landmark one-off Test against Afghanistan. Kohli will be playing for Surrey during the month of June and will miss the Afghanistan test.
“There was no intention (on Virat’s part) of not to play (against Afghanistan). It is only because of the English challenge which we have to rise through to the satisfaction of the entire cricket fraternity in this country and Virat wants to sustain for the right reasons,” Choudhary told.
“We have taken this decision to allow Virat as well as some others to give them a fair opportunity of acclimatising themselves in England. Basically, it is not for the shorter format but the longer one.”
“Our focus remains Test cricket and we continue to believe that this is one format which is normally the genesis of cricket in the world and it is something we need to nurse all time,” he added.
