'Cleverly misquoted me' - Venkatesh Prasad digs out Aakash Chopra's old tweet on Rohit Sharma amid KL Rahul debate

Venkatesh Prasad and Aakash Chopra continued their ongoing Twitter battle, with the former bringing out an old Tweet from the latter. In his latest Tweet, Venkatesh hit back at Chopra by posting a decade-old Tweet from the latter regarding Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane. 

In his Tweet on December 2012, Chopra had questioned the management's decision of selecting Rohit over Rahane. "Rahane doesn't make it to the XI. And 'talented' Rohit Sharma does," Chopra had tweeted back then.

It is fair to say that the current Indian captain struggled for consistency in his initial years despite featuring regularly in white-ball cricket. Venkatesh posted a screenshot of Chopra's criticism of Rohit's selection over Ajinkya and accused the latter for misquoting him. 

"So my friend Aakash Chopra after making a vile video on YouTube this morning where he calls me an agenda peddle, conveniently and cleverly misquotes me, removes Mayank’s average of 70 at home, wants to gag views which are not in line with what he believes but wanted Rohit out," Venkatesh wrote in his latest Tweet.

How did it start?

Venkatesh was one of the prominent names to criticise KL Rahul after the latter scored just 17 runs in the first innings of the second Test in Australia. He had earlier questioned Rahul's selection over Shubman Gill and Mayank Agarwal in the playing XI and accused the management for 'favoritism'.

Aakash was quick to react to Venkatesh's remark and blasted the former pacer for being too harsh on Rahul. He also accused Venkatesh of "leading a mob against Rahul" and defended under-performing Rahul in his recent video.

After a Twitter used lauded Chopra for bringing out the context in numbers instead of serving any misleading stats, he reckoned that it is the right thing to do, while adding that this is not a personal battle between him and Venkatesh, but only an attempt to highlight the truth.

"We must always try to do the right thing. Mobilising the internet mob is the easiest thing to do. Standing against the tide for the right reasons is what sports teach us. Also, it’s not Me vs Venky Bhai. I have immense respect for him but I feel it’s my duty to bring context," Aakash said in his Tweet on February 21.