Gautam Gambhir: The Indian team is currently playing a 5-match T20 series on its tour of Zimbabwe. The fourth match of which will be played on 13 July at Harare ground. Currently, Team India is leading 2-1 in this series. While during the Zimbabwe series itself, the new head coach of Team India has been announced and former player Gautam Gambhir has been made the head coach.

As soon as Gambhir becomes the head coach, there will be a lot of changes in the support staff of Team India. While now Rohit Sharma may be relieved from captaincy on the Sri Lanka tour and in his place a player who has been out of Team India for about 580 days can be made the captain.

Gautam Gambhir can make this player the captain

Team India's new head coach Gautam Gambhir will join the team for the T20 series and ODI series to be played with Sri Lanka. Let us tell you that the series with Sri Lanka is to start from July 26. It is believed that wicketkeeper batsman KL Rahul can get the captaincy of Team India in the ODI series against Sri Lanka.

Because, Rohit Sharma will not get a chance in this series. Due to which KL Rahul can now get the captaincy. KL Rahul has already captained Team India in the ODI format.

Rohit Sharma can be given rest

Team India has to play a 3 ODI series against Sri Lanka.

Apart from this, veteran players like Virat Kohli, Jaspreet Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja can also be rested against Sri Lanka. Due to which it is considered certain that KL Rahul will be made the captain in this series.

long running out

If we talk about wicketkeeper batsman KL Rahul, then he did not get a place in Team India in the recently played T20 World Cup 2024. KL Rahul last played Team India's ODI match against South Africa on 21 December 2023.

Whereas KL Rahul got his last chance in the T20 format on 10 November 2022. That is, KL Rahul has been out of the T20 format for about 610 days. If KL Rahul's performance remains excellent on the Sri Lanka tour, then he may get a chance to play further as well.