As soon as Rohit Sharma retired, Jay Shah announced the name of the new captain of Team India, handed over the command to the batsman who scored 30 centuries

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|08-07-2024

Rohit Sharma: Team India is currently going through a phase of change. After the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, three senior players of the team - Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja announced their retirement from the T20 format. Apart from this, the tenure of head coach Rahul Dravid also ended with this.

The Indian team management is facing a big challenge at this time, that is to choose the next captain of the team. BCCI secretary Jay Shah released a video yesterday and told who is going to lead India in the coming times. Let's know which cricketer he named.

Jai Shah told who will be the captain in the coming times

Jay Shah

After the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, Rohit Sharma said goodbye to T20 International. In such a situation, now the big question has arisen, who will be the next captain of India. Yesterday, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah said that for the time being Hitman will lead India in ODIs and Tests for one year.

In fact, the Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India released a video and congratulated Team India for winning the T20 World Cup 2024. He also said that he hopes that under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, India will be successful in winning the Champions Trophy 2025 and the World Test Championship 2025.

Watch the video here:

Full account of Rohit Sharma's captaincy

After Virat Kohli left the captaincy of the Indian team in the year 2021, this big responsibility was handed over to Rohit Sharma. Since then, under the captaincy of Hitman, India has managed to reach the semi-finals of T20 World Cup 2022, World Test Championship 2023 and the final of ICC World Cup 2023. At the same time, recently the Men in Blue managed to win the title of T20 World Cup 2024 played in America and West Indies.

This is what the international career of this player has been like

Rohit Sharma is not only a good captain but also an equally good cricketer. The 37-year-old player has played 59 Tests, 262 ODIs and 159 T20 matches. He has 4137 runs and 12 centuries in his name in Tests. In ODIs, Hitman has scored 10709 runs with the help of 31 centuries and 4231 runs in T20 by scoring 5 centuries.

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