The perform or be kicked out clear bearing down by India’s Board of Control for Cricket by chief selector Ajit Agarkar and head coach Gautam Gambir on two of India’s ODI batting icons in Virat Kohli the only batsman with 50 ODI hundreds and the man who took Indian cricket out of a hollow winning 40 of 68 test matches including first ever series triumph in Australia, and Rohit Sharma with a 75 per cent ODI success record with a stupendous 42 wins from 56 games who made batting look fun by the explosive 200s opening the batting with the 2025 T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy in his bag, is nothing but undermining of services rendered as reports emanating from the Indian media are nothing short of a story of marching orders handed out to two world greats and steadfast servants who changed Indian cricket.
The twosome Agarkar-Gambir knee jerk attitude towards India’s two world greats of a Kohli who changed cricket on its head by a Bruce Lee like his own way athletic mechanizing his batting to realizing phenomenal milestones, and virtual marching orders to Sharma by the mannerism of his sacking could be nothing but dangerous for Indian cricket leading to a split within.
You dont just put ultimatums on world greats whose artistry has not just put India right at the top of world cricket, but taken world cricket to another level, two phenomenal sagas in the game.
The two pitched Agarkar-Gambir stance could be make or break where their tongue in the cheek treatment of Kohli and Sharma is bound to be a kick back as it has given way to a battle right royal within as to who is the greatest.