Birmingham: BCCI joint secretary Amitabh Chaudhary claimed here Thursday that he is unaware of any rift between chief coach Anil Kumble and captain Virat Kohli, dismissing it as ‘purely speculative’.
“I am not aware of any such rift. It’s purely in realm (sic figment) of imagination. These are purely speculative,” Chaudhary told reporters on the sidelines of India’s practice session.
When quizzed further that there can’t be smoke without fire, the former Jharkhand top cop replied: “I see no smoke at all.” A probing scribe even asked why he was there when he was not scheduled to arrive, pat came the reply: “Amazing, you know my schedule more than me.”
It should however, be stated here that when the Sourav Ganguly-Greg Chappell spat happened, Chaudhary had stage-managed a picture of the two playing pool together. It was then distributed to the journalists to show everything was fine. It is but another matter that all hell broke loose a few days after the picture was released.
The timing of BCCI’s invite for coaches’ CV came up for discussion and Chaudhary retorted: “You show me, where’s the space in the calender. We are playing one series after another and there’s no space when we could have done it.”
He however, did not make any comments on Kumble’s future. “The process is well-defined. The cricket advisory committee (CAC) is seized of the matter and will deal with it,” Chaudhary informed.
PTI