After winning the T20 Cricket World Cup, Indian captain Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from T20 cricket and vacated the slot for a new captain, Hardik Pandya is one of the contenders to take over from Rohit.
After a bad IPL 2024 and the best T20 World Cup performance, Hardik Pandya can become the next Indian captain for the T20 team. Hardik Pandya has led India in 16 T20Is until now.
The BCCI has their task cut out to select their new full-time skipper in T20Is after the exit of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. While Hardik is on the radar for taking over from Rohit, BCCI’s Jay Shah said that Rohit’s replacement will be announced after discussions with the selectors.
After their T20 World Cup win, India will play a 5-match T20I series against Zimbabwe from July 6 at the Harare Sports Club. With several of their key players missing out, it is Shubman Gill, who will lead them in the bilateral series.
Gill was a part of the traveling reserves for the World Cup along with Rinku Singh, Avesh Khan, and Khaleel Ahmed.
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After the Zimbabwe tour, India will tour Sri Lanka later this month when they are set to play 3 T20Is. However, the skipper for the series is yet to be decided.
As far as Hardik is concerned, he has captained India in 16 T20Is and led them to wins in 10 of them. He also donned the captain’s hat 3 times in ODIs. In 2022, Hardik also succeeded as the captain of GT, leading them to their maiden IPL title.