'This is Karma. Chetan Sharma and Ganguly got sacked. King stands tall': Internet reacts with Kohli memes after BCCI fires national selection committee

New Delhi, Nov 19: In what can be called a significant development, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday sacked the National Selection Committee headed by Chetan Sharma and invited fresh applications. This comes after India was handed over an embarrassing 10-wicket defeat by England in the semifinals.

 

 

Apart from chief selector Sharma, the selection committee also comprised Sunil Joshi, Harvinder Singh, and Debashish Mohanty. There are multiple reasons why this development took place. Worst performances at the Asia Cup and World Cup, flawed selections of squads, and no consistency are the reasons why this is happening. First, it was Sourav Ganguly and now the selection committee.

 

Internet recalled the entire episode that had unfolded last year after India's disappointing group-stage exit in the T20 World Cup following which Kohli had voluntarily stepped down from the leadership role in T20I cricket. A month later he removed from ODI captaincy which highlighted a huge underlying rift between Kohli and the BCCI administrators.

 

Then BCCI president Sourav Ganguly had revealed that they had asked him to reconsider his decision, which Chetan had reiterated as well, but Kohli later contradicted it saying that he was informed just one-and-a-half hours before the selection meeting for the South Africa tour. After the Test series in January, Kohli also gave up on his Test captaincy role as well.

 

Hence, when the news BCCI sacking the entire selection committee, Twitter was filled with Kohli memes. Here are a few-