Delhi: After winning the T20 World Cup 2024 and the Champions Trophy 2025, India has proved its reign in white-ball cricket. But now the biggest question, which is in everyone’s mind is, who will be the next captain after Rohit Sharma’s retirement? Suryakumar Yadav is currently captaining in T20 format, while Shubman Gill is the vice -captain in ODIs.
Kapil Dev took Hardik’s name
However, 1983 World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev has no confusion in this. He has clearly said that Hardik Pandya should be the next captain of India’s ODI and T20 format. Kapil Dev said in a conversation with Mai Khel, “Hardik Pandya is the captain of the white-ball for me. There can be many names, but my choice is hearty.”
However, people’s opinion is divided on Hardik’s captaincy. The team won only 4 out of 14 matches and ranked last for Mumbai Indians in 2024. This year too, the team has started poorly and Mi has won only one match so far.
Kapil Dev believes, “Hardik is still young and he can form a strong team for the upcoming ICC tournaments.”
With the Gujarat Titans, Hardik won the title in 2022 in the debut season and took the team to the final in 2023. Then Mi withdrew him before 2024 and made the captain, which also had a lot of controversy.
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