The transition of India’s white-ball squad was made official by the BCCI on Tuesday with the appointment of Rohit Sharma as the team’s new T20 Internationals captain and KL Rahul as his deputy. After the ouster from the T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli’s last assignment as T20 International captain, a fresh start is being made with three home matches against New Zealand, starting on November 17 in Jaipur. Rahul Dravid will be the new head coach. The 16-member squad that the national selection committee announced on Tuesday doesn’t have Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja, as they have been rested. It has been understood that Hardik Pandya has been dropped on form and due to the question mark over his bowling fitness. A new-look pace bowling group has Bhuvneshwar Kumar as the sole link to the old one, to provide experience. But on a downward spiral, the upcoming series could be the 31-year-old seamer’s last chance saloon. That Rohit would take charge from Kohli was one of the worst-kept secrets in Indian cricket. Going by his previous stop-gap stints as India’s captain in limited-overs cricket, Rohit’s style of leadership is more akin to MS Dhoni’s than that of his immediate predecessor. Rohit has also led Mumbai Indians to five IPL titles. As this paper has already reported, he is also in line to take over the ODI captaincy in the near future, with Kohli helming the Test team. Indian cricket is not well conversant with split captaincy, save for a brief period when Dhoni had retired from Test cricket but continued for a couple of years as white-ball skipper.
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