Former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan feels that Indian think tanks should try to find a suitable leader to replace Rohit Sharma in 2024. The 36-year-old captained the Indian team in his 2023 ODI World Cup final and is also captaining the team in his ongoing two-match Test series against South Africa.
After India’s defeat in the ODI World Cup final, alarm bells are ringing that the Indian team will have to say goodbye to its senior players. This is because young players could step up and Indian cricket could enter a rebuilding phase. Along with the forward-looking leadership changes come changes in all three of his formats of the game.
Speaking to Star Sports, Irfan Parsan believes the Men in Blue should try to develop more leaders within the team. He said that the Indian team has performed very well under the leadership of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and asked who will lead the team after him.
“A lot of changes could happen in 2024, so if you have two or three leaders, you won’t have much of a problem.” Which leaders to have? will also be a focus. The Indian team has achieved incredible results in Test cricket over five years under the leadership of Virat Kohli. ”
“They reached number one in the rankings.His fitness was great.He performed well in every match and brought out the performance of the team in every match.Rohit Sharma also led the team led to surprisingly good performances. We saw it in the World Cup and he won the Asia Cup, but who will be after Rohit Sharma?” Irfan Parsan said .
Rohit Sharma is one of the successful white-ball captains. As age was not an issue for him, the Indian selectors and team management were looking to develop the next young player in the team to play a role in representing India in international cricket.
We Didn’t Have Very Good Fully Ready Backups For Fast Bowlers – Irfan Pathan
Irfan Pathan believes that India needs to prepare a good fast bowling unit and there is no replacement, and his performance against South Africa in the first Test will lead to Mohammed Shami’s Proteas tour. They point out that this will ruin their inability to participate in the event.
“I personally feel the Indian team needs to prepare a good fast-bowling unit in 2024. We saw what happened in South Africa. We didn’t have very good fully ready backups for fast bowlers. It’s not that they don’t have quality but they weren’t ready, so you felt Mohammed Shami’s absence.”
“It means, God forbid, if something happens to Jasprit Bumrah, we have seen him getting injured earlier because of his action, we will look left and right and we won’t get quality bowlers like that,” Irfan Pathan added.
In the last year or so, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, and Mohammed Siraj have been crucial to the team’s success in all three formats of the game.
Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, and Prasidh Krishna are finding their way to make it to the team through domestic performance and could be crucial to the team’s success in the upcoming years.
