Former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh thinks that split captaincy can help India in future. He said that for Virat Kohli’s workload management Rohit Sharma could be considered for the captain in the shortest format.
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The split captaincy debate has been once again generated by Yuvraj Singh, the legendary Indian cricketer. He suggested that the team management must think about reducing the workload management of Virat Kohli, the skipper for India across all the formats. “Earlier there were only two formats so it was easy for a captain to manage. If the load on Virat is more than maybe they should try a different captain for the shorter formats,” Yuvraj told Aaj Tak.
He went on to take Rohit Sharma’s name as the captain for the T20 format. Yuvraj believes that the vice-captain for India in 50-over format will be a good replacement in the format for Kohli. “Rohit has done a fairly good job. I don’t really know. They have to decide that how much workload Virat can take. It completely depends on how they want to go for the future. It is completely team management’s call,” Yuvraj added.
Yuvraj backs Rohit
Rohit Sharma has proved himself as a captain at the international level and led India to two titles. Under Rohit’s, India won the Nidahas Trophy T20 tri-series in Sri Lanka and the Asia Cup in 2018 at Dubai. He is also an able captain in IPL for Mumbai Indians. Moreover, the pressure of captaincy never affected his batting as he averages a whopping 77.27 including two hundred with one of them a double century against Sri Lanka at Mohali in 10 ODIs.
Yuvraj also questioned about Rohit’s inclusion in Test team as an opener. He opined, Now if you are making Rohit Sharma open in Tests, you should give him 6 Tests and tell him Rohit, you have got 10-12 innings, go and play your game, nobody will say anything. You gave so many chances to KL Rahul, so whoever is your opener, give him those 6 Test matches so that he can go and express his game.”
