5 Cricketers India can try as captains after the 2023 World Cup
Who will lead Team India after Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma?
5. Manish Pandey
Manish Pandey is a very important player in the Indian T20I squad. He rose to fame in 2016 when he struck his maiden century against Australia and finished the game for India chasing a massive total of 331. Since then, the 31-year-old batsman from Karnataka has had a pretty mixed career, being in and out of the national team.
Pandey was appointed the captain of Karnataka’s squad in the 2018-19 season, ignoring the seniority of KL Rahul (for team India) and he led the team to glory in Vijay Hazare Trophy and the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. In the very same season, he also created the record of winning the most T20 matches in a year by a captain.
The charming batsman is a natural leader. He likes to take charge in the field and is an excellent reader of the situations in the game. He believes in leading by example and always keeps talking to his players so as to know what they want and to tell them what he expects out of them.
No doubt Pandey is an excellent leader, but the problem with him is his age. By the time the 2023 World Cup would end, Pandey would be around 34-35 years of age, and would be inching towards his closing years as an international cricketer. In such a scenario, India would prefer to invest their time in someone like Shubman Gill, who would have a lot of cricket left ahead of him after 2023.
~ Written by Aayush Pathak
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