BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Wednesday seemingly ended the hypothesis about India’s captaincy conundrum for the T20 World Cup when he mentioned that Rohit Sharma, not Hardik Pandya, will lead India into the event in West Indies.
“In 2023 (remaining) at Ahmedabad, regardless that we didn’t win the World Cup after 10 straight wins, we gained hearts. I need to promise you that in 2024 (T20 World Cup) in Barbados (venue for the ultimate), underneath Rohit Sharma’s captaincy, ham Bharat ka jhanda gaadenge (we’ll hoist the Indian flag),” Shah mentioned on the Niranjan Shah Stadium occasion in Rajkot.
“Rohit was captaining (prior to now in different codecs) and he got here again for the Afghanistan sequence, which suggests we had been going to let him proceed ahead,” Shah added.
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“In 2023 (remaining) at Ahmedabad, regardless that we didn’t win the World Cup after 10 straight wins, we gained hearts. I need to promise you that in 2024… pic.twitter.com/GcEJjSdiLs
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“If Hardik was injured within the (2023 ODI) World Cup, who else can we give the captaincy?” requested Shah, indicating if the all-rounder will get injured in the course of the course of the 2024 T20 World Cup, who will change him as captain.
“Within the third T20I towards Afghanistan, India had been 22/4 and the way in which he (Rohit Sharma) took the group to 212/4, we will’t query a lot about him, proper?” he mentioned.
“He (Rohit) has the flexibility, as I mentioned, we gained 10 video games within the ODI World Cup. We didn’t win the ultimate, but it surely’s half and parcel of the sport. Whoever performs higher, wins,” Shah expressed.
India have confirmed their captain for the 2024 #T20WorldCup 🚨https://t.co/z6raYjo0JA
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With Rohit returning to the T20I fold after the 2022 T20 World Cup debacle within the current sequence towards Afghanistan, it’s now all however confirmed from Shah’s phrases that he’ll be the one main the group.
Pandya had been dealing with the captaincy duties within the shortest format in Rohit’s absence and had led India in a lot of the T20I sequence after the 2022 World Cup.
Pandya is at the moment present process rehab for his ankle damage, suffered in the course of the ODI World Cup final 12 months towards Bangladesh and can intention to get match earlier than the most recent version of the Indian Premier League the place he’ll lead the Mumbai Indians after changing Rohit as captain for the franchise.
India will play Pakistan, Eire, Canada and co-hosts USA within the group levels of the 2024 T20 World Cup.