NEW DELHI – India’s opening batsman Rohit Sharma has been named the newcaptain of India’s T20 side, replacing star player Virat Kohli, Board ofCricket Control of India announced Tuesday.
The Board of Cricket Control of India shared a tweet saying Sharma wasnamed the T20I Captain for India as it announced the squad for the homeseries against New Zealand.
Sharma, the hard hitter batter, debut in 2007 for the national team. Healso led the Mumbai Indians to victory in the Indian Premier League (IPL)five times while the franchise led by Virat Kohli failed to win the titleso far.
Rohit has played 116 international matches of limited format cricket andamassed more than 3,000 runs. He also scored 9205 runs in 227 ODI’s and3047 from 43 Test matches at an average of nearly 47.
Meanwhile, the development comes after former Indian skipper Virat Kohliannounced to step down from T20 captaincy before the World Cup.
Kohli recently hinted that Rohit would succeed him in limited over’s formatas the latter has been overlooking things for a while now, he said as heended disappointing World Cup campaign.
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Citing workload, the Indian star player said it’s been around seven yearsof intense cricket every time we take the field and it takes a lot out ofyou however he assured his intensity on the field. That’s never going tochange. If I can’t do that I will not play anymore, he added.
Kohli, who took over T20I captaincy in 2017, holds the captaincy of theone-day and Test teams.
After the poor performance of team India in the ICC mega event, legendIndian cricket Rahul Dravid is also replacing Ravi Shastri as coach.
Virat Kohli is also not named in the recently announced squad for the NewZealand tour as he was given rest. The tour by Kiwis begins on November 17with the first of three T20 games followed by two Test matches.
