This month has not been good at all for Team India's star all-rounder Hardik Pandya. Despite playing an important role in making Team India the T20 World Champion, Hardik was dropped from the race for Team India's captaincy. New coach Gautam Gambhir played an important role in this big decision in his very first series. Now Hardik has been dropped from the last match of the series as well. Hardik was not given a place in the playing eleven of the last T20 match being played in Pallekele, which surprised everyone.

4 changes in Team India

On Tuesday, July 30, in the last match of the series, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav lost the toss and Team India had to bat first.

The news that captain Suryakumar Yadav gave about the playing eleven during the toss proved to be a bit shocking. Surya told that 4 changes have been made in the playing eleven for this match, in which Hardik Pandya was dropped from this match. Apart from him, Rishabh Pant, Arshdeep Singh and Akshar Patel were also not given a place for this match.

Now the question is why did the coach and captain do this? The answer lies in the result of the series. Team India had won the series by winning the first and second matches.

In such a situation, in this last match of the series, along with giving rest to the senior players, there was also an opportunity to give match practice to the rest of the players of the squad. Therefore, Gambhir and Surya together decided to exclude these 4 players from the playing eleven and include Shubman Gill, Shivam Dubey, Khalil Ahmed and Washington Sundar in the playing eleven.

How right is it to give rest to Hardik?

If seen, this decision seems right because it will give other players a chance to play as well. In the case of Arshdeep, Pant and Akshar, it is understandable but giving Hardik a rest from this match raises questions.

This is because he is only a part of the T20 series on this tour and he will not play in the ODI series. At the same time, Pant, Akshar and Arshdeep are part of the ODI series. In such a situation, Hardik could have been played in the last match as well. Shivam Dubey, who came in the playing eleven in his place, is also a part of the ODI series, where he is almost certain to get a chance in Hardik's absence. In such a situation, leaving Hardik out of the playing eleven raises questions.

This is India's playing 11

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Shivam Dubey, Riyan Parag, Washington Sundar, Khalil Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi and Mohammed Siraj