Guwahati: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Chetan Sharma resigned amid a controversy over his purported comments in a sting operation.
According to reports, BCCI secretary Jay Shah has accepted his resignation.
According to the sting operation, Sharma allegedly stated some odd things about Virat Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya and several other squad members. There was no official announcement from the BCCI on the subject but it now appears that Sharma has been let go of his responsibilities.
Sharma allegedly disclosed his private conversations with head coach Rahul Dravid and captain Virat Kohli during the sting operation run by Zee News.
Sharma claimed that many athletes, including those who are 80 to 85 percent healthy use injections to hasten their comeback to competitive cricket. The former India pace bowler also claimed that he and the team management disagreed on whether Bumrah should play in the T20I series against Australia in September after recovering from a stress fracture.
Bumrah is still sidelined and is expected to miss the following three-match ODI series as well as the full four-match Border-Gavaskar series.
Moreover, Sharma claimed that Sourav Ganguly the former BCCI president and former captain Kohli got into an argument about egos.