Star Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been named the stand-in skipper for the T20I series against New Zealand in the absence of Rohit Sharma.
Hardik Pandya is suffering as Stand in Skipper for the tour as regular Skipper Rohit Sharma rested for the Tour.
But Hardik Pandya is strong contender for leading the Team in the future.
Hardik Pandya led Gujarat Titans to IPL victory in their debut season in 2022.
But former Pakistani cricketer Salman Butt is not convinced with Pandya’s leadership qualities and feels that just winning the IPL should not warrant a captaincy stint with the national team.
“I don’t know who is seeing him as captain and who is watching such dreams. He has talent and has tasted success in the IPL. But even Rohit Sharma has been successful five to six times in the IPL. If he had scored well in a couple of matches (in the T20 World Cup 2022), people wouldn’t have been talking about making this change at the top. In the Asian subcontinent, people start talking about such drastic and big changes rather soon,” Salman Butt said in a video on his YouTube channel.
“Only one captain has won the World Cup, the rest of the teams have lost. Will you change the captains of all 11 teams because they lost the World Cup? Sometimes, just for the sake of giving an opinion, people say, ‘change the captain’,” he added.
