Deepak Chahar Names A Player Who Should Lead India Team For Sri Lanka Tour
Updated - 21 May 2021, 06:27 PM
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India limited-overs pacer Deepak Chahar has named senior player Shikhar Dhawan as the player who should be named captain of the Indian team which will be touring Sri Lanka for a white-ball series in July. India will be playing 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is on their tour of the island nation.
With most of the first-choice players like Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami and other senior players currently quarantining in Mumbai and readying for their tour of England for the World Test Championship final against New Zealand and the five-Test series against England, India’s white-ball team would be needing a new captain.
Amongst those present in India, reports have shortlisted Shreyas Iyer, Shikhar Dhawan and Hardik Pandya are in the race for leading the Indian team on their tour of Sri Lanka.
For Me, A Senior Person Should Become A Captain And Shikhar Dhawan Is A Good Choice: Deepak Chahar
Despite being called a second-string Indian side to tour Sri Lanka, there are a number of established players who will be on the plane to Sri Lanka like Shikhar Dhawan, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar Shreyas Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Deepak Chahar, Krunal Pandya, Prithvi Shaw, and T Natarajan, all of them possibly be picked for the white-ball series.
India pacer Deepak Chahar who has so far played 3 ODIs and 13 T20Is for India is expected to tour Lanka and threw his weight behind the experienced Shikhar Dhawan to lead the Indian team on Sri Lankan tour. Dhawan has played 34 Tests, scoring 2315 runs, 142 ODIs, making 5977 runs and 65 T20Is with 1673 runs, scoring a total of 24 centuries, including 17 ODI tons.
“Shikhar bhai will be a good choice (for captain). He has been playing for a long time and has a lot of experience. For me, a senior person should become a captain. Because players see that player as a senior and respect him and obey him with honesty. Players should respect their captain. He (Dhawan) will be a good choice,” Deepak Chahar told TimesofIndia.com in an exclusive interview.
The formal schedule for the same and the squad have not been announced yet. Also rumored is that the National Cricket Academy chief and former India cricketer Rahul Dravid is set to travel with the team as head coach, in absence of Ravi Shastri who will be in England.
