Sourav Ganguly calls for official statement detailing roles of Ravi Shastri and Duncan Fletcher

Ravi Shastri (L) with Sourav Ganguly during his first stint as a team director in 2007

Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has called for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to come up with an official statement explaining the roles of the new appointments to avoid the existing chaos on who has the superior authority in the Indian set-up.

While the top BCCI officials have reiterated that the team director Ravi Shastri, who was drafted in following India’s lacklustre showing in the just concluded Test series against England, will be calling the shots, Indian captain MS Dhoni, on the eve of the first One Day International, at Bristol, claimed that Duncan Fletcher is still the the “boss”, thereby incurring the wrath of the board that went on to state “Dhoni has overstepped his brief as an Indian captain.”

Along with Shastri, also came in the likes of Sanjay Bangar, Bharat Arun and Ramakrishnan Sridhar in place of the Zimbabwean’s hand-picked assistants Joe Dawes and Trevor Penney, both of whom have been sent on a forced leave.

One win can change everything

“Now the question of authority comes. There have been appointments, rest given to support staff, and the best thing at the moment is to come out with an official statement explaining each other's role in the squad. That will put everything to rest, especially the sources which create a lot of harm to the team,” Ganguly wrote in his column for the Hindustan Times.

Ganguly added: “All of us must remember that it is our India team and we go up or down with it. So, it demands maturity and hopefully all can show that. As far as the players and captain are concerned, it is time to keep quiet and get on with the game.

“They must remember that one win will change everything, the headlines will change, the sources will talk differently and it's important that all energy is directed towards winning because it is the best healer. For me, Team India is capable of doing that.”