Rohit Sharma or Hardik Pandya, who will be India’s captain in the T20 World Cup 2024? The debate grew to become a major heart level particularly as a consequence of what has unfolded in latest months. Hardik Pandya’s return to Mumbai Indians and changing Rohit Sharma as the brand new MI captain added sturdy speculations about what Team India’s path will be over the captaincy for the June match. However, BCCI secretary Jay Shah seemingly has ended the suspense.
Speaking in the course of the renaming operate of the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Shah confirmed that Rohit will be the captain on the international occasion in the USA and West Indies. “I’ve not commented about the 2023 World Cup, the final of which we lost in Ahmedabad. I can assure you India will win the T20 World Cup in Barbados on June 30 under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy,” Shah stated on the operate the place the SCA Stadium was renamed because the Niranjan Shah Stadium.
For the unversed, Rohit Sharma lately returned to T20I motion throughout India vs Afghanistan collection, which was the final 20-over collection for India forward of the World Cup in June. He had not performed the shortest International format for greater than a 12 months since India’s exit from the T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia. Since then, Hardik Pandya has been the captain of the T20I staff in the video games the place he was match. As he suffered an ankle damage in the ODI World Cup, Pandya missed out on the cricketing motion and Suryakumar Yadav led the Men in Blue in two T20I collection thereafter.
After the ODI World Cup 2023, the Indians have performed three T20I collection – one every towards Australia, South Africa and Afghanistan. Only a handful of ODI WC-bound gamers performed in the T20IÂ collection towards Australia with a couple of extra returning for the South Africa T20Is. However, Rohit and Virat Kohli made a return to the format for the Afghanistan collection solely.Â
