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Gautam Gambhir, Ajit Agarkar Slammed For This Hardik Pandya Name: “Do not See Any Cause…”

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Former India wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik has expressed his shock over the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s resolution to strip Hardik Pandya because the vice-captain of the T20I crew. This comes after the BCCI didn’t checklist Hardik because the designated vice-captain of the crew for the upcoming five-match T20I collection in opposition to England. As a substitute, all-rounder Axar Patel has been named as deputy to T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav. Karthik feels that the transfer to strip Hardik off the function is not sensible.

“I actually do not know. I do not know why he (Hardik) was stripped of his vice-captaincy. I do not see any motive to (strip Pandya of the vice-captaincy). (India) have accomplished nicely. They’ve gained within the bilaterals that he was the vice-captain. Not a clue,” mentioned Karthik on Cricbuzz.

At one level, Hardik was main the race to interchange Rohit as captain of the T20I crew. He even led the crew on a number of events each time Rohit was rested.

He gained three out of 4 T20I collection as captain, earlier than Suryakumar’s elevation after the T20 World Cup success final 12 months.

In the meantime, India will play England in a five-match collection, beginning with the primary recreation in Kolkata on January 22.

The second and third matches will probably be held on January 25 and 28 in Chennai and Rajkot, respectively. The fourth recreation of the collection will probably be performed on January 31 in Pune. Mumbai will host the ultimate match of the T20I collection on February 2.

Practically 14 months after he final performed a global match, veteran seamer Mohammed Shami will make his return to the aspect throughout the collection.

India T20I squad: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel (vc), Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Shami, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Dhruv Jurel (wk).

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