TIL Desk Sports/ The Board of Control for Cricket in India is likely to pose a few questions to chief coach Ravi Shastri and captain Virat Kohli depending on how the third Test against England pans out after being left disappointed by the team’s meek surrender in the first two games.
The team for the fourth and fifth Test will be picked after the third game, starting in Nottingham on Saturday, the result of which would decide the BCCI’s course of action after a disastrous performance in the first two matches, left the visitors trailing 0-2 in the five-match series.
“The Indian team can’t complain that they were not given enough time to prepare. When we lost the South Africa series, the players spoke about tight scheduling and lack of practice games. It was after speaking to them that we decided that white ball matches will be held before the Tests,” a senior BCCI official said on Monday. The question doing the rounds in the BCCI corridors is why the Shastri-Kohli duo has been given a carte blanche in team management.
