New Delhi: With Rohit Sharma’s retirement from the longest format of the game, Indian team management is busy contemplating on a new face who can be chosen as the skipper of the Test side. After Rohit called it quits from the red-ball format, a lot of names in are popping up who can be potential replacements for the Mumbai batter.
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has said that young guns Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant are the ideal candidates to lead India in the Test format. Shastri said that both the flamboyant players have age on their side and already possess the experience of leading the IPL sides. The former coach also added that pace spreadhead Jasprit Bumrah, who is also in contention to become the Team India skipper, should be protected from given additional burden.
Bumrah obvious choice but….
‘See for me, Jasprit would have been the obvious choice after Australia. But I don’t want Jasprit to be made captain and then you lose him as a bowler,’ Shastri said on the latest episode of the ICC Review with Bumrah’s wife Sanjana Ganesan. The selectors will have to pick a new Test captain following the recent retirement of Rohit Sharma.
‘I think he (Bumrah) has to take his body one game at a time. He’s coming back now after a serious injury. He’ll have played IPL cricket, which is four-over cricket. Now will come the test of bowling 10 overs, 15 overs (in Tests). And the last thing you want is some pressure on his mind being captain as well,’ he added.
With Gill and Pant in their 20s, Shastri feels the board should look at the key factors like age and longevity to decide on the future India skipper. India’s next assignment is a five-match series against England, starting June 20 at Leeds.
(With PTI inputs)
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