New Delhi: Issues have modified rather a lot within the nationwide staff for Hardik Pandya, who performed a key position in India’s title win within the T20 World Cup. Hardik, who was the vice-captain of India through the T20 World Cup, was not given the command of the T20 staff for the Sri Lanka tour. Suryakumar Yadav will lead the Indian staff within the shortest format of the sport. After being relieved of the duty of captaining India, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see whether or not IPL staff Mumbai Indians will retain this all-rounder as captain. The Mumbai franchise had made Hardik the captain earlier than final season rather than IPL’s most profitable captain Rohit Sharma. After profitable the T20 World Cup title, Rohit has joined the listing of gamers like Mahendra Singh Dhoni within the Indian sports activities world. The IPL goes to have a giant public sale this yr and in such a state of affairs it must be seen whether or not Rohit will stay with the Mumbai staff or not. Aside from Hardik and Rohit, Suryakumar Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah additionally need to lead the staff.
Mumbai Indians can take some robust choices
The IPL Steering Committee has not but introduced what number of gamers they may permit to be retained. It’s probably that the franchise can be allowed to retain 4 gamers together with one foreigner. Franchise groups should take some robust choices on constructing a robust staff for the following few years. Mumbai Indians didn’t carry out nicely below the captaincy of Hardik, who did wonders for Gujarat Titans.
Ashish Nehra was current to information Hardik within the Gujarat staff, however with Mumbai he didn’t get that type of steerage from coach Mark Boucher. Gautam Gambhir turning into the pinnacle coach has affected Hardik’s probabilities of turning into the captain. Nonetheless, the choice committee led by Ajit Agarkar additionally contributed considerably to this, which believed that Hardik has not been good strategically as a captain. Younger gamers will even be extra snug with Suryakumar Yadav than him.
Hardik has to point out his power in home cricket
Hardik should carry out nicely within the T20 Worldwide sequence to be performed in Sri Lanka to maintain himself vital. He will even must play persistently in home matches. Since January 2022, he has been in a position to play solely about 50 p.c of the restricted overs matches for India. He has performed 46 out of 79 T20 Internationals and solely 23 out of 59 ODIs throughout this era. There are ups and downs in Indian cricket and if Hardik has to play within the Champions Trophy subsequent yr, then he should play within the Vijay Hazare Trophy for Baroda in December.