Vice Captain is biggest joke in indian cricket team as the one who never becomes captain.exactly happened with hardik and axar & same will happen with tilak as well 😂
One thing I find hard to understand is why Sanju Samson is even in the conversation for T20I captaincy. Yes, he played some brilliant innings in the T20 World Cup and has proven himself as a match-winner with the bat. But captaincy is a different story. He is not an active captain in the IPL, he gave up captaincy at Rajasthan Royals, and RR didn’t achieve anything extraordinary under him.
So what exactly are his credentials to be seen as the next T20I captain? It’s beyond me.We should first see him become a consistent performer in T20Is rather than giving him more leadership responsibilities. Realistically, he was very inconsistent before the T20 World Cup and there were even talks of dropping him. Then he produced some magical knocks in the big tournament.
The hope now should be that he maintains that form and becomes a permanent fixture in the team not that he jumps straight into the captaincy race.
It was captain Hardik Pandya who made Gujrat Titans champions in IPL 2022.
He was player of the match in final as well, he led from the from on the biggest stage.
Sanjay Manjrekar said “Sai Sudharsan has three fifties in four innings for India in ODI cricket. Yashasvi Jaiswal’s last innings was an unbeaten 116. And yet, these guys are not playing for India. Instead, the selectors have gone with a veteran (Rohit Sharma) whose fitness is a question mark and who is clearly out of form. Now explain that to me. What is the logic behind it? What is the vision?" (Sportstar’s Insight Edge)
If Rohit Sharma had given even one percent of the support to Hardik Pandya that Virat Kohli gave to Rajat Patidar, Pandya would have easily won 2-3 titles with that super team. https://t.co/nfQQs4ezFg
I feel bad for Hardik Pandya, he gave his everything for Rohit Sharma during 2023 & 2024 WC specially 2024 WC when he was going through such tough phase be it professionally or personally but Rohit never showed similar support to him at MI.