Gautam Gambhir: Team India's head coach Rahul Dravid's tenure has ended with the T20 World Cup 2024. At the same time, the name of Gautam Gambhir as the new head coach has also almost been decided. Media reports have said that Gambhir has put a condition before the BCCI that he will prepare the team for the future. Especially for the T20 format, he will give preference to young players. It is believed that this is the reason why senior players are retiring. However, there are some players who have not retired and Gambhir himself can exclude them from the team.

Gambhir will exclude these players

Rohit Sharma and company created history last week by winning the T20 World Cup title for India for the second time. With this success, Team India's legendary batsmen Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja surprised everyone by announcing their retirement from T20 Internationals.

But it is believed that as soon as Gautam Gambhir becomes the head coach, players like KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav and Mohammed Shami may be forced to retire.

Rahul and Surya's careers are over!

KL Rahul played his last T20 International for India in November 2022. Since then he has been waiting for his chance in the T20 format. Rahul has scored 2265 runs in 72 T20 Internationals at a strike rate of 139.13. On the other hand, Suryakumar Yadav's strike rate has also come down in recent times and his age is also increasing. In such a situation, if Gautam Gambhir drops him from the T20 squad, it will not be a big surprise.

Shami and UG's game is over too

Team India's veteran fast bowler Mohammed Shami has not played much T20 International. He has taken 24 wickets in 23 matches at an economy rate of 8.94. At the same time, it has been a long time since Yuzvendra Chahal played T20 International for the team in blue jersey. At the same time, if Gautam Gambhir prepares the squad for the 2026 T20 World Cup, then it is very difficult for Chahal's name to be in it. In such a situation, both the senior bowlers can announce retirement.