Team India will lastly its common T20I captain again for the upcoming series in opposition to Afghanistan. Notably, that is the final series in the format that India is scheduled to play earlier than the T20 World Cup that’s set to begin on June 1 in the West Indies and the USA. The celebrity duo – Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli – are making the much-awaited comeback in the format, for the first time since dropping to England in the semifinal of T20 World Cup in 2022 in November.
Interestingly, with Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav – the latest captains of the workforce in the T20I format, being injured, the selectors have gone again to Rohit Sharma to lead the workforce. The man has already has led the facet in 51 T20Is amassing 1527 runs at a mean of 32.49 with two centuries and 10 fifties to his title. He is simply 44 runs away from going past Virat Kohli to develop into the highest run-scorer for India as captain in T20Is.
Kohli scored 1570 runs in 46 innings (50 matches) as India captain in the shortest format earlier than stepping down after the T20 World Cup in 2021. He hit 13 half-centuries with an unbeaten 94 being his highest rating. Overall, if Rohit has a likelihood to develop into the fourth highest run-scorer as captain in T20I cricket if he goes past Kohli.
Even although workforce India has been led by a lot of gamers in the previous couple of years, solely Rohit, Kohli and MS Dhoni have been the captains in majority of the matches. Dhoni is at the twelfth place in this record amongst all the nations taking part in T20Is with 1112 runs in 62 innings (72 matches) as captain of India.
Most runs as captain in T20Is
