T20 World Cup 2024: The ICC T20 World Cup is just an year away. And with a new team and a young captain (Hardik Pandya) former India team coach Ravi Shastri is certain that quite a few new faces will be seen in the Indian team. Shastri opined that the new skipper Hardik Pandya will have an important role in the team selection for the Men in Blue. Senior players like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are yet to be ruled out from thw shortest format of the game, but the transition of the team has already started. Follow T20 World Cup 2024 Live Updates with InsideSport.IN
“I think they will (look in new direction), The T20 World Cup is coming up and there is lot of talent among youth. This year’s IPL, we have seen some refreshing new talent. There will be new faces not a new team. He (Hardik) is already captain of India, so he will continue unless he is not fit,” Shastri told ESPN Cricinfo.
Keeping India’s 2007 World Cup win into account, it is quite certain that a young Indian team under the captaincy of MS Dhoni went on to lift the coveted title.
“Now they would go the 2007 T20 World Cup route and identify talent, and he (HP) will have big choice and his ideas will be different and he would have played IPL, and seen a lot of other players as captain of IPL. Obviously, he is the man who is going to take these guys out on the park, no one else, so whatever he says has to be given importance,” he added.
“Don’t even think of T20 World Cup till ODI World Cup is over, and after that you have enough time for T20s.” As far as Hardik is concerned, Shastri finds him at his decision-making best when he is fit and leading from the front.
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Former India head coach Ravi Shastri claimed that this season’s Indian Premier League (IPL) will prove to be an unlimited source of resources for the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup.
“He is supremely confident about his own abilities and the fact that he is fit now, makes a massive difference. I believe one should be captain of his state in Ranji to captain in Test matches. Similarly IPL is your biggest domestic T20 tournament. It is a great (platform) to test temperament of a bloke against good opposition. Quality (compared to SMAT or Hazare) here is far better and you take all that into account and see who’s leading which franchise and who’s doing well.”
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