T20 Captaincy - Rohit Sharma The Best Choice
THE WEEK|November 14, 2021
With his experience and track record, Rohit Sharma is the clear frontrunner for the job of T20I captain
Neeru Bhatia And Anirudh Madhavan
T20 Captaincy - Rohit Sharma The Best Choice
The 2019 Indian Premier League final. Chennai Super Kings needed nine runs to win off the final over. Mumbai Indians’ skipper Rohit Sharma tossed the ball to Lasith Malinga; the Sri Lankan had gone for 42 runs in his three overs that night, had dropped a catch and had missed a run out.

Mumbai won by one run.

The match had been deeply tactical, with momentum see-sawing throughout the night. Chennai captain M.S. Dhoni was cool under pressure, as expected, but Sharma was cooler that day.

This is one of the reasons Sharma is the frontrunner to be India’s T20I captain after Virat Kohli bows out at the end of the ongoing World Cup. It is a campaign that has, so far, gone horribly for one of the favourites. India now depends on the results of others to make it to the semifinals.

The question is, will the BCCI bank on Sharma’s experience and success—he is the current vice captain, has captained India, was part of the T20 World Cup-winning team of 2007 and has led Mumbai Indians to five IPL titles—or will it be more forward-looking and add freshness to the team by choosing a younger captain? The names of K.L. Rahul and Rishabh Pant are doing the rounds.

Whoever the choice, he will, along with new coach Rahul Dravid, have nearly a year to correct course, before the next T20 World Cup in Australia.

Dravid, the former India captain and former head of the National Cricket Academy, has previously coached the India A and Under-19 sides, and would look to translate that success to the highest level.

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