Rohit Sharma will be the new captain of Team India for T20 and ODI. Soon Rohit's name will be finalized in the selection committee meeting. Sports website Inside Sports has given this news quoting sources from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). It has also been said that Virat Kohli will continue to be the captain of the Test team.
According to the report, the BCCI official has denied having separate captains for all three formats. Virat has already decided to leave the T20 captaincy after the World Cup. He had sent his resignation to BCCI citing work load.
While announcing his retirement from T20 captaincy on social media, Kohli had said that he has been playing for India in all three formats for many years and has also been captaining in all three formats for the last few years. The workload on him is too much. In such a situation, he is leaving the captaincy of T20 to focus on the captaincy of ODIs and Tests and will continue to play T20 cricket as a batsman.
New Zealand team will tour India after T20 World Cup. The New Zealand team has to play a series of three T20 and two test matches. The first T20 match is to be played in Jaipur on 17 November. The second T20 match will be played in Ranchi on 19 November and the third T20 match in Kolkata on 21 November. After this, the first Test will be played in Kanpur from 25-29 November and the second Test match will be played between 3-7 December.
There are two World Cups to be held by 2023. Next year in 2022, the T20 World Cup will be played on the grounds of Australia in October-November, while in 2023, the ODI World Cup is to be hosted by India.
Before such a big tournament, Rohit will also get full opportunity to prepare his team. Keeping in mind the big grounds of Australia, Rohit Sharma can prepare a good team. Also, his experience of winning big tournaments so far will prove beneficial for the team.
Team India will have two captains for the first time after 2017. Earlier, from 2014 to 2017, the Indian team had two captains. Dhoni had retired from Test cricket in 2014 and Virat Kohli became the new captain of the team. At the same time, Dhoni was playing as captain in ODIs and T20s. After this, Kohli has captained India in all three formats since 2017. Now, after Kohli quits the T20 captaincy, Rohit and Kohli will be two different captains of India.
Rohit's record as a captain is excellent. He has captained India in 19 matches and won 15 matches. At the same time, he has won 59.68 percent matches for his team in the IPL. Rohit is the only captain to have five IPL trophies to his name. While captaining India, Rohit has also performed brilliantly as a batsman. He has scored 712 runs under his captaincy at an average of 41.88 and has also scored two centuries and five half-centuries.
Along with making Rohit the captain, BCCI will also announce the appointment of Rahul Dravid as the head coach. Ravi Shastri's tenure ends after the T20 World Cup. In such a situation, there is a possibility that Dravid can be given the responsibility of head coach of Team India.
