Team India: Team India's legendary batsman Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from T20 International after the T20 World Cup 2024. Kohli played a match-winning innings of 76 runs off 59 balls in the title match. In such a situation, now the question in the minds of the fans is who will replace Virat after his retirement.

This question has been answered to some extent in the recently concluded Zimbabwe series, but this name can be confirmed on the Sri Lanka tour. Let us tell you who this young player is.

This young player will replace Virat

Team India's next bilateral assignment is the Sri Lanka tour. The blue jersey team will play a 3-match T20 and an equal number of ODI series from July 27. This will be Gautam Gambhir's first mission as head coach. At the same time, all eyes will be on Ruturaj Gaikwad, who showed a brilliant performance on the Zimbabwe tour. He is being seen as Virat Kohli's successor in T20 Internationals. Gaikwad has the ability to perform brilliantly while batting at number 3.

Created a blast against Zimbabwe

27-year-old Ruturaj Gaikwad showed tremendous performance on the Zimbabwe tour. He was out after scoring just 7 runs in the first match, but after that he batted brilliantly in the second T20 and third T20. In the second match, he played an unbeaten innings of 77 runs with the help of 11 fours and 1 six in 47 balls, while in the third match, Gaikwad played a stormy innings of 49 runs hitting 4 fours and 3 sixes in just 28 balls. After this, he did not bat in the fourth T20 and in the fifth he was dropped from the playing eleven.

In such a situation, if he shows a good performance against Sri Lanka too, then he can be declared the successor of Virat Kohli.

Such has been the career

Talking about Ruturaj Gaikwad's international career, he has so far scored 633 runs in 23 T20 matches for India (Team India) at an average of 39.56 and a strike rate of 143.53, which includes a century and 4 half-centuries. Apart from this, the right-handed batsman has also played 6 ODI matches, but this format is not his cup of tea. He has scored only 115 runs at an average of 19.16.