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Suryakumar Yadav (Source-ICC/T20WC)
India’s new T20 skipper Suryakumar Yadav is getting ready for the tour of Sri Lanka which is set to start in six days. The 33-year-old was named the new skipper of the T20 side ahead of Hardik Pandya who was considered a favourite for the job.
Suryakumar Yadav was seen training hard with some drills recently. The 33-year-old could be seen taking short laps of the ground which he had posted on his official Instagram handle.
Team India will begin will play their 1st T20 on Saturday followed by the next match on Sunday. The final game of the series will be played on Tuesday with all the matches set to be played in Pallekele. This will be followed by the three match ODI series starting on 2nd August with Colombo hosting all the three matches.
Sanjay Bangar speaks out on Hardik Pandya’s captaincy snub
Former India batting coach Sanjay Bangar was recently speaking to Star Sports India where he spoke about Hardik Pandya not getting the T20I captaincy. Bangar said “It is not that Suryakumar Yadav has played less domestic cricket before playing international cricket. So he has a lot of experience, I think he has led Mumbai in domestic cricket as well and knows how to extract the best from the players,”
The former India star also said “So there is nothing wrong in Suryakumar being made the captain. I fully believe that he will do a good job but I still feel a little injustice has been meted out to Hardik”
Sanjay Bangar also said “I am a bit surprised as far as Hardik not being the captain of the T20 team is concerned because even before the previous T20 World Cup it seemed like if Rohit had not become the captain and Hardik had not gotten injured at that time, Hardik only would have become the captain”
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BCCI decided to name Suryakumar Yadav as the skipper of the T20I side after speaking to a few team members. It was reported that many members of the team were in favour of Yadav being named the captain of the side. It was due to his calm and collected way of running things that made the members feel at ease.