India’s Shubhman Gill and Rohit Sharma bump their fists throughout a match. — Reuters
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has eliminated Rohit Sharma as India’s One Day Worldwide (ODI) captain, handing the management to Shubman Gill in a big generational shift.
Gill’s vice-captain for the Australia sequence shall be Shreyas Iyer.
In response to Indian media, the choice, taken by the Ajit Agarkar-led choice committee in session with head coach Gautam Gambhir, comes simply months after Rohit lifted the Champions Trophy, a triumph that proved inadequate to increase his captaincy tenure.
At 26, Gill has rapidly established himself because the face of India’s new cricketing period. Having already changed Rohit as Check captain following his retirement from the format, Gill was broadly seen because the pure successor in ODIs. The administration made the change with an eye fixed on the 2027 ODI World Cup, which shall be co-hosted by South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
“A couple of things really, firstly it’s practically impossible to have three different captains for three formats, just in terms of planning, obviously at some stage you got to start looking at where the next World Cup is, it’s also a format which is played the least now,” Agarkar said at a press conference in Ahmedabad.
“So you don’t get that many games to actually give the next guy, or if there is going to be another guy, that much time to prepare himself or plan,” he added.
Agarkar confirmed Rohit had been informed of the decision but refused to comment on whether Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli — both retired from T20Is and Tests — would feature in the 2027 World Cup. “That’s the format they are at the moment playing, we picked them as far as the 2027 World Cup is concerned. I don’t think we need to talk about it today,” Agarkar instructed reporters.
Each gamers haven’t represented India for the reason that Champions Trophy victory in March.
The brand new management change comes as India put together for a busy schedule. After the continuing two-Check sequence in opposition to West Indies, India journey to Australia for 3 ODIs and 5 T20Is beginning October 19. They may return house to host South Africa for a two-Check sequence, three ODIs and 5 T20Is.
In the meantime, India started their Check season strongly, crushing the West Indies by an innings and 140 runs in Ahmedabad. Spinner Ravindra Jadeja claimed 4 wickets as India bowled the guests out for 146 inside three days.
Squad: Shubman Gill (capt), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (vice-capt), Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal.
— With extra enter from AFP
