Hardik Pandya T20 Captain: India crashed out of the T20 World Cup 2022 after suffering a 10-wicket defeat at the hands of eventual champions England in the semi-final. Rohit Sharma’s captaincy and, as such, noise is increasing to change the captain and play young players. Hardik Pandya T20 Captain for Team India.
T20 World defeat has raised the question as to whether many of the team members are capable of continuing for the Men in Blue in T20Is, while also bringing the question as to whether Rohit Sharma is fit to lead the team. Many experts believe that Hardik Pandya, who led Gujarat Titans to their maiden IPL title in 2022.
Hardik Pandya had previously captained India in two T20Is against Ireland earlier this year, and will again get a chance to lead the side in the upcoming T20I series against New Zealand. Should be the next in line to replace Rohit Sharma as Team India captain for the shortest format, and 1983 World Cup winner Krishnamachary Srikkanth has joined in to back the all-rounder.
“See if I was the chairman of the selection committee, I would say that Hardik Pandya should be the captain of the 2024 World Cup, straight away, I had put it that way – number one,” the former chief selector said in an interaction with Star Sports.
Srikkanth also opined that India should start building their T20 squad for the 2024 World Cup right from the series against New Zealand starting on November 18. “And start rebuilding a side right from today, that is from the New Zealand series which is going to happen in a weeks’ time.
You start from today, the preparation for the World Cup, you need to understand, starts 2 years in advance. So, you do whatever you want to do, the trial and error policy, do whatever you want, try it for one year, then you form a team and by 2023 make sure this is going to be at the level that is going to play the World Cup,” added the former opener.
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Krishnamachary Srikkanth also stressed the fact, that India need more fast bowling all rounders in the mix. “You need more fast-ball all-rounders. Let’s see, 1983 World Cup, 2011 World Cup, 2007 T20 World Cup, why did we win? We had many fast-ball all-rounders and semi all-rounders. So, to identify these guys – guys like (Deepak) Hooda, like Hooda, there are going to be so many more Hoodas,” added.
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