‘I don’t know who sees him as captain,’ Salman Butt said of Rohit Sharma. Amid calls for Hardik Pandya to be appointed captain. Hardik Pandya is presently captaining India’s T20I team against New Zealand.
In Rohit Sharma’s absence, star Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been select stand-in captain for the T20I series against New Zealand. While Pandya is just serving as an interim captain in the absence of the permanent captain. He is expect to lead the Indian team in the future. With a concentration on the shortest format of the game. Pakistani opener Salman Butt disagrees with Pandya’s leadership abilities.
Hardik guided Gujarat Titans to IPL success in their inaugural season in 2022, rediscovering his batting form in a new capacity. With India looking to revamp their approach in Twenty20 Internationals. Pandya is primed to take over from Rohit in the future.
However, former Pakistani cricketer Salman Butt is skeptical of Pandya’s leadership abilities and believes that winning the IPL should not be enough to earn a captaincy spell with the national side. Butt also believes that after a terrible tournament, Asians are too ready to pass judgment on players and captains. He emphasized that Rohit had multiple IPL championships under his belt and that people would not have questioned him if he had scored runs in the just ended T20 WC.
“I don’t know who is seeing him as captain and who is watching such dreams. He has talent and has tasted success in the IPL. But even Rohit Sharma has been successful five to six times in the IPL. If he had scored well in a couple of matches (in the T20 World Cup 2022), people wouldn’t have been talking about making this change at the top. In the Asian subcontinent, people start talking about such drastic and big changes rather soon,
Salaman Butt said.
People say ‘change the captain’ just to express their opinion: Butt Salman
Butt backed up his claim by saying that because just one skipper won the T20 World Cup in Australia, the countries should fire the remaining 11 captains who competed. He believes that people are too eager to point the blame at the captains simply to voice their viewpoint.
“Only one captain has won the World Cup, the rest of the teams have lost. Will you change the captains of all 11 teams because they lost the World Cup? Sometimes, just for the sake of giving an opinion, people say, ‘change the captain’,”
he added.