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The Indian Test team has a captain.
The Indian Test captain denied that he asked to skip theODI series in South Africa.
This is the same week as the replacement of Kohli as theODI captain.
Local media reported on Tuesday that a cricketer wanted to leave the series.
The changes in India's Test andODI line-ups came after Dravid took over as head coach.
India's tour of South Africa begins with a three-game Test series on December 26th, followed by three one-dayers on January 19th and 23rd.
He told reporters on Wednesday that he was available for selection. 1.5 hours before the selection committee meet, I was contacted. The Test team was discussed. I was told before the call ended that I wouldn't be the one-day captain. There wasn't a prior communication.
He said that he was a very able captain and tactically sound and wished him a fast recovery.
According to the news channel, it is expected that he will recover in time for the first match.
According to sources, the Indian cricket board allowed the captain of the team to opt out of the series.
Fans and commentators on social media wondered if he was upset at being replaced as captain and if there was a rift between him and the new skipper.
On Wednesday, he said that he was tired of answering the same question for the past two-and-a-half years and that he had no problems with Sharma.
In January of last year, Mahendra Singh Dhoni handed over the reins of India's limited-overs captaincy to Kohli.
He won 65 of the 95 one-day internationals while in charge and led India to the semi-finals of the World Cup.
After the men's T20 World Cup, he stepped down as India's Twenty20 captain. He said he needed to give himself time to be ready to lead India in both cricket and one-day internationals.
He was replaced for one-dayers by another, who is now the vice-captain of the Test team.
The president of the Indian cricket board asked the T20 captain not to step down.
The two white-ball captains in the two white-ball formats were not wanted by the selectors.
He pointed out that they did consider the 70% winning rate of the captain, but also pointed out the eight wins of the stand-in skipper.
India's most successful Test captain in terms of win percentage is also the third-most successful captain in Test history. The Indian Test side was ranked seven in the world.
India has not won an international trophy under him. The team has not won the trophy in three years.
