Gautam Gambhir: Recently a 3 match T20 series was played between India and Sri Lanka and in this series Team India won the series by 3-0. In this series, young players were given a chance in Team India's squad and they have performed brilliantly.

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have retired from the T20 format and now a new team will be formed. In this regard, the responsibility now lies with India's new head coach Gautam Gambhir and he has already indicated which players he is going to include for the World Cup to be held in 2026.

India won the T20 series

After Rohit Sharma's retirement from this format, the captaincy of the T20 team has now been handed over to star batsman Suryakumar Yadav. Yadav led India to a 3-0 victory against Sri Lanka under his captaincy.

This series was Gautam Gambhir's first assignment as head coach and he won it. Team India won the first match by 43 runs and defeated Lanka by 7 wickets in the second match, while in the third match, they won in the super over.

Gautam Gambhir gave hints about the team for T20 World Cup 2026

Actually, Gambhir gave a chance to the youth in the team on this tour and also tried the players sitting on the bench in the third match. In such a situation, this is an indication that Gambhir wants to try all the players before the World Cup and give them a chance.

Let us tell you that the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 is to be played in India and in such a situation, Gautam would like to prepare the team according to the Indian situation. Surya will be seen captaining the team in the 2026 World Cup and Gambhir has already thought of the names of the rest of the players.

This could be the team of T20 World Cup 2026

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Rinku Singh, Riyan Parag, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj.