Suryakumar Yadav’s Childhood Coach ‘Very Proud’ of His T20I Captaincy Appointment

Mumbai: Suryakumar Yadav’s childhood instruct, Ashok Aswalkar, expressed delight after he became appointed as India’s new T20I captain for the upcoming three-usual sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka.

After Rohit Sharma decided to bring the curtain down on his T20I career interior the aftermath of India’s triumph interior the T20 World Cup, the captaincy spot became left vacant.

Shubman Gill assumed the responsibilities of premiere an inexperienced part for the five T20Is in opposition to Zimbabwe. Then over over again for India’s upcoming T20Is, a new face will lead the Indian part.

Expressing happiness over what Suryakumar has done in his career, Aswalkar informed ANI, “I had messaged him interior the afternoon pronouncing that you're organized to get an exceptional message in these days and age, and interior the night, after we heard the recordsdata, I felt very proud…I skills very gentle. Captaincy is a quite out of the important function. He played interior the World Cup 2024 with great gamers like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Ravindra Jadeja. By taking part in with such great cricketers, we get to learn a lot.”

Suryakumar has had a first rate sized substitute of premiere the Indian part after he captained the neighborhood ideal by potential of closing 12 months’s Four-1 T20I sequence triumph in opposition to Australia and a 1-1 sequence attract opposition to South Africa ideal by potential of the previous this 12 months.

Gill became named Suryakumar’s deputy for the T20I sequence.

Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya, in opponents to lead the part interior the T20I format, has been integrated interior the squad but got’t feature interior the leadership hierarchy of the neighborhood.

The T20I sequence will birth out on July 27 at Pallekele, accompanied by potential of three ODIs, so that you're organized to kick off in Colombo on August 2.
T20I Squad: Suryakumar Yadav (C), duhubman Gill (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Mohammed Siraj.

ODI Squad: Rohit Sharma (C), duhubman Gill (VC), Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Riyan Parag, Axar Patel, Khaleel Ahmed, Harshit Rana.