Gautam Gambhir Not In Favour Of Split Captaincy: 'Ideally, If You Have One..'

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Last Updated:May 23, 2025, 16:10 IST

India caput manager Gautam Gambhir prefers 1 skipper for each formats but acknowledges it's impractical owed to packed schedules.

Gautam Gambhir said 'ideally' he'd similar conscionable 1 all-format skipper (Picture Credit: PTI)

India caput manager Gautam Gambhir has said he’s not successful favour of divided captaincy for 3 planetary cricket formats and would ‘ideally’ similar 1 leader. He, however, besides understands that specified an statement was nary longer viable successful the existent script with packed planetary calendars and T20 leagues.

The past clip India had an all-format skipper was successful 2024 until Rohit retired successful T20Is. Even then, helium wasn’t actively captaining successful T20Is successful 2023 arsenic his main absorption was connected the 50-over World Cup. Currently, Rohit is the ODI skipper and Suryakumar Yadav the T20I skipper, portion a Test skipper is yet to beryllium selected.

“Ideally, arsenic a coach, if you inquire me, it’s overmuch easier to enactment with 1 feline — if you person 1 skipper for each 3 formats," Gambhir said successful an exclusive interrogation withCNN-News18."I’m saying ideally, but it ne'er happens due to the fact that you person to recognize successful today’s time and age, you can’t person a skipper captaining for 12 months successful a twelvemonth due to the fact that you’re playing 10 months of planetary cricket and past you’re playing 2 months of IPL.

“So, ideate who’s going to beryllium starring India would decidedly beryllium starring the franchise. Putting a young feline captaining the broadside for 12 months successful a twelvemonth is putting a batch of toll connected his intelligence being oregon connected his crippled arsenic well. So, ideally it’s one, but successful today’s time and age, it is ever amended to person 2 due to the fact that evidently that unit tin really beryllium distributed among 2 people, and it gets overmuch easier for a subordinate to effort and beryllium escaped erstwhile he’s not captaining the side."

Before Rohit, Virat Kohli was the all-format skipper who was besides starring Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) astatine the time. During his tenure, cross-format connection and streamlining of the imaginativeness utilized to beryllium cardinal reasons down the arrangement.

After Kohli stepped down from T20I captaincy, BCCI made Rohit the T20I arsenic good arsenic the ODI skipper and reports attributed it to the aforesaid reason. Kohli past resigned from Test captaincy excessively and Rohit took implicit crossed the board.

If Shubman Gill is made the Test skipper arsenic reported past it’ll beryllium the archetypal clip India volition person 3 antithetic captains for 3 formats.

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