At 37 years previous, Rohit is undoubtedly within the twilight of his adorned profession and whereas he has handed the T20I captaincy baton to Suryakumar Yadav, it is solely prudent for BCCI to start out grooming their subsequent Take a look at and ODI captain.
Younger opener Shubman Gill has been given the possibility recently to guide India in white-ball cricket and him being appointed the skipper of Gujarat Titans substantiates the thought that he has been checked out as the longer term India captain.
Allrounder Hardik Pandya’s shares as a captain have taken successful recently. His failure as Mumbai Indians’ skipper final season and the BCCI selectors’ concern associated to his health noticed him shedding India’s T20I captaincy to Suryakumar.
Nonetheless, it stays to be seen who the Indian cricket board feels can step into Rohit’s footwear and matches the invoice to guide the crew in all three codecs.
On the most recent episode of Cricbuzz present ‘heyCB’, former India wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik was requested this query by a fan: “Who can be India’s future captain of all codecs?”
“Two gamers come straight into my thoughts, who’re younger, have the potential and undoubtedly can lead India in all of the codecs within the close to future. One, Rishabh Pant. Two, Shubman Gill,” replied Karthik.
“Each of them are captains in IPL groups and have captained India. I do assume in time, they’ve the possibility to turn out to be the all-format captain for India as effectively,” he added.
Pant made his comeback to aggressive cricket with the IPL earlier this 12 months, since his horrific automobile accident in December 2022. Subsequently, he made a profitable return to white-ball internationals and is now set for his Take a look at return after being chosen for the primary Take a look at of the house collection towards Bangladesh beginning later in September.
