Difficulties seem to be increasing for Shubhman Gill. In the same year, he was given the captaincy of the Test team and then the ODI team. Apart from this, he also remained the vice-captain of the T20 team. On December 20, when the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup 2026 was announced, Shubman Gill was nowhere to be seen. Now there is news that the captaincy of the ODI team can be taken away from Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer can become the new captain.
Shreyas Iyer will become ODI captain?
It is being claimed in the reports that Shreyas Iyer can be appointed as the new captain of the Indian ODI team. Shreyas is currently the vice-captain of the ODI team. Iyer has a lot of captaincy experience, he has captained his team from domestic cricket to IPL also. There is a strong discussion on social media about making Shreyas the vice-captain of the ODI team.
In October this year, before the ODI series against Australia, Shubman Gill was made the captain of the ODI team. Shreyas Iyer became the vice-captain along with him. If these reports remain true, then Shreyas Iyer will be the 29th cricketer who will have the privilege of captaining the Indian ODI team.
Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, India has played 3 ODI matches so far, in which it has won only one. Team India lost the ODI series 1-2 on the Australian tour. The speculation about Gill being removed from ODI captaincy just before the T20 World Cup 2026 is indicating that his future in all three formats does not seem secure.
Shubman Gill out of T20
The recent T20 form of Shubman Gill, who has been the vice-captain of the T20 team for the last few months, has been very bad. Whereas in the T20 series against South Africa, he scored only 32 runs in 3 matches. It was reported that he could not play the fourth and fifth T20 matches due to injury, but some reports claimed that the management had already decided to drop Gill, which was the reason why he did not play the fifth T20 match. Now it is certain that Gill will not play the 2026 T20 World Cup.
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