‘Injustice has been meted out to Hardik Pandya’: Former India cricketer on Suryakumar Yadav’s appointment as T20I captain | Cricket Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer and batting coach Sanjay Bangar has expressed dissatisfaction with the choice to nominate Suryakumar Yadav as India’s T20I captain for the upcoming sequence towards Sri Lanka as an alternative of Hardik Pandya. Bangar, who believes Pandya performed a vital function in India’s latest T20 successes, feels that the all-rounder has been unfairly neglected.
India will play three T20Is and three ODIs towards Sri Lanka beginning July 27.
Following Rohit Sharma’s retirement from the shortest format, many anticipated Pandya, who was the vice-captain throughout India’s latest T20 World Cup win, to step into the captaincy function. Bangar expressed shock that Pandya was not given the captaincy.”I’m a bit stunned so far as Hardik not being the captain of the T20 crew is worried as a result of even earlier than the earlier T20 World Cup it appeared like if Rohit hadn’t turn into the captain and Hardik hadn’t gotten injured at the moment, Hardik solely would have turn into the captain,” Bangar stated on Star Sports activities.

“The Indian crew had began getting into that path. The selectors had additionally discovered that path. I discover this sudden U-turn barely troubling. We now have actually learn that the chairman of the choice committee and the coach have spoken to Hardik Pandya,” he added.

Pandya has demonstrated a robust management report, having led the Indian crew to 10 victories in 16 T20Is. Yadav has captained Staff India in seven T20Is, successful 5 of them.

“It isn’t that Suryakumar Yadav has performed much less home cricket earlier than taking part in worldwide cricket. So he has lots of expertise, I believe he has led Mumbai in home cricket as nicely and is aware of the way to extract the perfect from the gamers,” Bangar stated.
He continued, “So there’s nothing mistaken in Suryakumar being made the captain. I totally consider that he’ll do job, however I nonetheless really feel a little bit injustice has been meted out to Hardik.”

Whereas acknowledging that selectors and coach Gautam Gambhir may need defined their causes to Pandya, Bangar opined that the all-rounder would nonetheless really feel damage by the choice.
“As a participant, you might be all the time understanding what the selectors are attempting to do, what the brand new coach is making an attempt to do however deep inside himself, I’m fairly certain that Hardik might be deeply damage that he’s not being thought of for T20 captaincy,” Bangar acknowledged.