Team India gets new captain-ripapan, will take over the responsibility of Team India in Asia Cup 2025
Team India: As part of a major leadership change before the Asia Cup 2025, BCCI has appointed a new captain and vice-captain for Team India in T20 format. These two will lead the team in the Asia Cup 2025 and aim to win the title with new energy and direction.
With the comfort to senior players and focusing on creating a core team for the future, this step indicates a new chapter.
Prior to the Asia Cup, the two players who can be made the captain and vice-captain of Team India in the T20 format are none other than Shubhman Gill and Hardik Pandya.
According to the news, Gill has made up his mind to make Gill the captain of Team India in T20 format, because Gill has proved himself by captaining Gujarat giants in IPL 2025, along with the Test captaincy in England, everyone has captivated everyone.
At the same time, Hardik Pandya has captained India in 16 T20I matches, in which he won 10, 5 and 1 match tie. Thus his win percentage is 65.62%. He has led India in the 5 series, out of which he has won in 4 and suffered defeat in 1.
T20 is a great record in International
Talking about T20 international cricket, both Shubman Gill and Hardik Pandya have a great record. Hardik has played 114 T20I matches and scored 1,812 runs at a batting average of 27.88 and a strike rate of 141.67. He has also taken 94 wickets with the best performance of 4/16.
At the same time, Shubman Gill has also proved himself in this format. He played 21 T20 Internationals and scored 578 runs at a strike rate of 142, with 126 runs his highest score. During this time he has scored 3 half -centuries and 1 century.
Official announcement remains from BCCI
In fact, the BCCI, in fact of the Asia Cup 2025, has neither announced Team India nor the captain and vice -captain, in fact, in view of the current situation, it is being speculated that Gill can be made the captain and Hardik as the vice -captain.
The reason for this is also that Gill has won the hearts of everyone with his captaincy in both Test cricket or T20 formats. While he got his captaincy iron in England in the Test, he also brought Gujarat to the playoffs in IPL 2025.
