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Team India T20 Captain: After the T20 World Cup 2024, Rohit Sharma has said goodbye to the shortest format of cricket. Meanwhile, Team India is looking for a new captain and Hardik Pandya is likely to get an edge in this matter. But the situation is not as easy as it seems, because it seems a difficult task for the BCCI to take a sudden decision. Now the question arises that if not Hardik, then who should be given the command of the T20 team?
Why won't Hardik get the bow?
According to the Indian Express, the BCCI and the people in the selection committee are not in agreement on who should be made the captain. The main reason for this is Hardik Pandya's fitness. Hardik is currently the most important all-rounder of Team India and he scored 144 runs with the bat and took 11 wickets in bowling in the T20 World Cup.
Hardik's fitness is such a serious concern that he has not played Test cricket since 2018. Even in fixed-overs games, his workload has been given a lot of attention. Importantly, Hardik was also ruled out of the ODI World Cup 2023 due to a hamstring injury. Given Hardik's fitness, he may not find a place in the T20 team.
If not Hardik then who?
A BCCI source said that since the situation regarding Hardik's captaincy is not clear, the name of Suryakumar Yadav has also been discussed. When it was said that Surya has taken over the command of the team, some high officials were impressed. The report also revealed that Gambhir's vote can be important in choosing the captain. The important thing is that soon a meeting is going to be held between chief selector Ajit Agarkar and Gautam Gambhir, in which the team can get the green signal for the Sri Lanka tour.
Captaincy record of Hardik and Suryakumar
Hardik took charge of Team India for the first time in the year 2022. Since then he has led the team in 16 T20 matches, winning 10 of them. At the same time, Surya has got the opportunity to lead the team seven times so far, in which Team India has won five times.