Jasprit Bumrah and Ravi Shastri (BCCI Photo) New Delhi: The former cricket India and former head coach Ravi Shastri advocated the approach forward in selecting another Indian captain after the departure of Rohit Sharma from the format. Rohit recently resigned from the test cricket, but confirmed that ODIS would continue to play. Previously, he left the T20 International after leading India to the World Cup title 2024 T20 in West India.Shastri, when he spoke of an ICC review, shared his view of the ongoing discussion around the captain of an unoccupied test.In an interview with the hostess Sanjan Ganesan Shastri, he emphasized the need for thinking about the future and recommended against the burden on the Indian pace of Jasprit Bumrah with the leaders of duties.
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“See you for me, Jasprit would be an apparent choice after Australia,” Shastri said.“But I don’t want Jasprit to become a captain and then lose it as a pitch.”Shastri emphasized Bumhrah’s recent battle with his back injury, which he suffered during the last match of Trophy Border-Gavascar in Sydney. The injury started him for almost three months, from the beginning of January to April, which forced him to miss the Indian triumphant campaign ICC Champions Trophy 2025.“I think he (Bumrah) must take his body at once after a second. He will return after a serious injury now,” Shastri said.“It will play IPL cricket, which is four shortcuts.
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Instead of introducing a special responsibility to Bumrah, Shastri was supported by SHUBMAN GILL and RISHABH PANT as suitable candidates for the test captain and emphasized the importance of age and longevity.“Someone is adjusting and I would say that SHUBMAN looked very good. Give him the opportunity. He is 25, 26 years old, even will give him time,” Shastri said.“There’s also Rishabh. I think these two are obvious that I look at for their age and have ten years ahead. So let them teach them.”Shastri also pointed out that when Rohit and Virt Kohli recently resigned from the test format, the team had to look forward and further strengthen the case of Gill or Pant.Both players come with the experience of leadership when the captains of their franchises IPL – Gill with Gujarat Titans and pants with dili capitals.“Now they have experience such as captains, their franchise captains, and that’s the difference,” Shastri said.“The little one I saw from SHUBMAN looks very interesting. Alleged, calm, has all the qualities,” said Shastri, praising the temperament of the top rating in the ICC ODI.The shastri, who was concerned about Gill’s performance abroad, directly rejected criticism.
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“You people will speak that it does not have a score of running overseas. You know, this topic always comes, not scored overseas,” he said.“Sometimes I tell them, go and look at your own record of how much you did overseas? Overseas, overseas, let it play, let it run overseas, then the score is running. It’s a class player.”Gill, who has already acted as Indian more captain in ODIS, also the captain of the national site in the T20i series in Zimbabwe. India won a series of 4-1, while Gill scored 170 runs across five shifts in a strike of 125.92, including the highest score of 66 in the third T20i-match of India won 23 runs.“He has a cricket for the country for ten years,” Shastri said.“And I’m sure he gets cracking in one of the tours, replacing all the runs he doesn’t have previously got to.”
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