: Team India captain Rohit Sharma has announced his retirement from international T20 cricket after the T20 World Cup 2024. After retiring from international T20 cricket, Team India will now need a new captain in the T20 format.

For which, according to media reports, Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar has given 4 names to BCCI Secretary Jay Shah, but it is believed that Jay Shah has advocated the selection of this veteran player as the captain.

Ajit Agarkar considers these 4 players as contenders for captaincy

Chief selector Ajit Agarkar has selected Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav as the Indian captain in the T20 format after the T20 World Cup 2024. According to media reports, the chief selector wants to give the captaincy of the T20 format to one of these 4 players after Rohit Sharma retires at this time.

Jay Shah wants to make this player the new captain of Team India

Talking about the high-ranking officials of BCCI, Jay Shah is looking at Hardik Pandya as the captain of Team India's next T20 format. Jay Shah had also informally given the captaincy of Team India's T20 format to Hardik Pandya in the beginning of the year 2023.

After that, Hardik Pandya got injured during the World Cup. Due to which BCCI once again brought back Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the T20 format.

Hardik Pandya has a lot of experience of captaincy

Hardik Pandya has been playing in the T20 format for Team India since 2016.

At the same time, in the first few months of the year 2023, Hardik Pandya also captained Team India in the T20 format. Because of which Jay Shah can once again give Hardik Pandya a chance to captain Team India in the T20 format.