Nonetheless, there isn’t any official affirmation from the BCCI that Pandya is full time captain within the shortest format however he has been main the facet after the T20 World Cup passed off in Australia final 12 months.
All-format skipper Rohit Sharma and star batter Virat Kohli didn’t function in any of the T20I collection India performed after the T20 World Cup, suggesting the workforce’s administration push to construct a brand new workforce for the subsequent 12 months’s showpiece occasion.
However a video of Rohit doing the rounds on social media appears to have cleared the air that the opening batter could be very excited and searching ahead to enjoying the T20I World Cup subsequent 12 months.
“Extra than simply going and having fun with, there may be another excuse to come back right here (within the USA). As a result of you understand the World Cup is coming. In June, there would be the T20 World Cup (2024) taking place on this a part of the world. So, I am fairly positive everybody is happy. So yeah, we stay up for that,” Rohit stated at a promotional occasion in the USA.
With solely two months left for the 2023 ODI World Cup to start, scores of Indian followers will probably be dreaming once more to see the Rohit-led facet ending a ten-year watch for lifting a serious trophy on residence soil on November 19.
The dream of lifting a serious trophy has been a long-standing dream for India, who’ve faltered at each step within the quest for it since profitable the 2013 Champions Trophy in England, with Rohit being part of it.