SKY As Captain: Goodbye Hardik Pandya?

The Indian cricket team is undergoing many informative changes under the leadership of the newly appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir.

While the ODI and Test sides are bound to remain standard under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, there is a lot of anticipation on the T20 side of things.

In a highly interesting announcement from team India, it was unveiled that Surya Kumar Yadav is the new captain of the Indian T20 side.

This really is a surprising move, considering that the T20 side has Shubman Gill(captain of Gujarat in IPL) and Hardik Pandya(MI captain) in the playing XI. Sidelining Hardik to give captaincy to SKY is a huge deal.

If this is a calculated decision from Gambhir, it might have something to do with Surya’s time in KKR earlier when Gambhir was the captain of the side.

As it appears, Hardik Pandya who earlier served as the captain for the T20 side in the absence of Rohit Sharma, is waving goodbye to the captaincy post henceforth.

Gambhir is a tough taskmaster and it really is going to be a tough ride ahead for the players in the side. The start of these changes might be instigated by the announcement of Surya as the captain itself.

Though Hardik is a class player, his captaincy material has been under questioning for a while now. This could be observed in the case of him being replaced by SKY now.