New Delhi: India failed to make it to the finals of the T20 World Cup 2022 after losing to England in the semi-finals. Since then Team India is being criticized. Not only this, now speculations are being made about major changes in the Indian team. The selection committee was removed last Friday. After which now there is a possibility of crisis over the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. At the same time, the name of Hardik Pandya is trending a lot for the captaincy.
Many people in T20 International are demanding to replace Rohit Sharma and make Hardik Pandya the new captain. Former Pakistani captain Salman Butt has now given a big statement on the demand of making Hardik the permanent captain of T20. He has targeted such people who are demanding to make Hardik the captain.
In fact, Butt said on his YouTube channel, “I don’t know who is seeing him as the captain and who is having such dreams. He has got the talent and has been successful in the IPL. Rohit Sharma has also been successful five-six times in IPL. If Rohit had scored runs in a few matches of the T20 World Cup, people would not have been talking about such a change.”
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People in Asia have a habit of demanding such drastic changes very quickly, says Butt. People just want to give their opinion and that’s why they start demanding change of captain. According to Butt, the World Cup was to be won by only one team, but, it does not mean that the performance of other teams was poor. Along with this, he also said that only one captain won the World Cup, so the captains of the remaining 11 teams should be changed.
Let us tell you that at present the Indian team is on New Zealand tour. India’s senior players have been rested from this tour. In this tour, a three-match T20 series and a three-match ODI series are to be played between India and the Kiwi team. Hardik Pandya is the captain of Team India for the T20 series, while Shikhar Dhawan will lead the team for the ODIs. At the same time, the first match of the T20 series got washed out due to rain. In such a situation, now the second match is to be played on 20 November.