‘Hardik Pandya Will Be Deeply Hurt’: Sanjay Bangar On SKY’s Appointment As India’s T20I Captain

Delhi: Former India cricketer Sanjay Bangar feels that Hardik Pandya may additionally be “deeply harm” after being disregarded for India’s T20I captain condition previous to the Sri Lanka tour.

Formerly this week, BCCI appointed Suryakumar Yadav as India’s new T20I captain even as Shubman Gill, who captained the part in five-organic T20Is in the direction of Zimbabwe, has been appointed as white-ball vice-captain, beginning with the three-organic T20I and three-recreation ODI sequence in the direction of Sri Lanka.

The substitute in leadership condition turned into staggering as Pandya turned into the defacto captain of the T20I part in Rohit Sharma’s absence after the 2022 T20 World Cup. As Rohit, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja announced their T20I retirements after the T20 World Cup triumph in Barbados, it turned into anticipated that the all-rounder would regain the leadership condition inside the shortest format.

Besides the fact that, below new apply Gautam Gambhir, Suryakumar emerged as a fave substitute for the skipper even as Gill as his deputy. The experiences claimed that Pandya’s harm-inclined career is believed about routinely essentially the most explanations to now no longer choose him as Males in Blue captain in T20Is.

“I'm a chunk amazed as some distance as Hardik now no longer being the captain of the T20 team is involved end result of the reality even previously the previous T20 World Cup it acknowledged like if Rohit hadn’t change into the captain and Hardik hadn’t gotten injured for the time being, Hardik best would have change into the captain,” Bangar noted on Superstar Sports.

“The Indian team had commenced moving into that path. The selectors had additionally discovered that path. I find this weird and gorgeous U-turn barely troubling. We have neatly read that the chairman of the determination committee and the apply have spoken to Hardik Pandya,” he launched.

The veteran cricketer does now no longer doubt Suryakumar’s abilties to guide the Indian team then once extra talked about end result of the reality it an “injustice” for Pandyda. “It’s now no longer that Suryakumar Yadav has performed a improved deal less home cricket previously playing world cricket. So he has a improved deal of journey, I think he has led Mumbai in home cricket as identical and is privy to information to still extract the great from the avid gamers,” Bangar noted.

“So there may additionally be nothing fallacious in Suryakumar being made the captain. I accurately imagine of that he'll do a improved job, then once extra I still journey a bit injustice has been meted out to Hardik.”

The previous India batting apply noted the substitute has convinced made a deep impact on the all-rounder, who will attribute inside the T20I sequence in the direction of Sri Lanka, beginning on July 27.

“As a participant, you can be always awareness what the selectors are attempting to search out to do, what the enterprise new apply is attempting to search out to do then once extra deep inside himself, I'm gorgeous convinced that Hardik may additionally be deeply harm that he's now no longer being inspiration of for T20 captaincy,” Bangar talked about.