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Shubman Gill announced as the new ODI captain of India

Do you think Shubman Gill was the right choice as ODI captain?

  • Yes, future leader material

    Votes: 4 50.0%

  • No, too early in his career

    Votes: 3 37.5%

  • Should have gone with experience

    Votes: 1 12.5%

  • Time will tell

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    8
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Shubman Gill has taken over the reins of India’s One-Day International side from Rohit Sharma, marking the start of a new era in Indian cricket. His first assignment will be the three-match ODI series in Australia later this month.

Gill, 26, is already India’s Test captain, having been elevated to the role in May after Rohit stepped away from red-ball cricket. His maiden outing in that capacity came in the five-Test series against England, which ended in a 2-2 draw.

Before the leadership baton was passed to him in both formats, Gill’s only experience as India captain came in five T20Is on the 2024 tour of Zimbabwe, a stop-gap role when several senior players were rested after India’s T20 World Cup triumph.

India’s upcoming tour of Australia will be Gill’s first full-fledged challenge in the white-ball arena. The ODIs are scheduled for October 19 (Perth), October 23 (Adelaide), and October 25 (Sydney), followed by a five-match T20I series from October 29 to November 8. The ODI and T20I squads are expected to be announced together.

Rohit has led India in 56 ODIs since taking charge in December 2021, replacing Virat Kohli. Under his captaincy, India reached two ICC finals: the 2023 ODI World Cup at home, where it lost to Australia, and the 2025 Champions Trophy in the UAE, which India won by defeating New Zealand.

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Shubman Gill takes over ODI captaincy from Rohit Sharma, to lead in Australia

Rohit Sharma’s ODI captaincy era ends as Shubman Gill takes charge. India to face Australia in Gill’s first ODI series as skipper.
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Virat Kohli led India to 65 wins out of 95 ODIs.

Rohit Sharma bettered Virat's record by winning 42 out of 56 ODIs.

Let's hope Gill goes up a step further & wins the big one in his tenure as the ODI captain.
 
India has a solid team already
Seems like BCCI will not consider Rohit after this series and both, Kohli and him, may retire together
 
Rohit was playing just one format. That too ODI. No domestic cricket. His stocks were falling. It is right choice to make Gill ODI captain, gives him enough time to prepare for 2027 wc. P.S Iyer is more deserving but he is not in the good books post 2023 wc.

:kp
 
India's transition is officially under way. They have left out Jadeja even though they say he is in their plans. Jurel is in there as back up for Rahul. Shami dropped. Kohli and Rohit were given signals.
 
Gill has had tough time under pressure, except for 91 at Gabba & recent 100 vs England in the 4th test, Gill has cracked under pressure regularly. A fit Pandya/Pant would have been much better choice but Gill seems to have the blessings of the BCCI, head coach & chief selector.
 
Sachin fan said:
So probably is Kohli, Gambhir is not a fan of carrying seniors around.
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Kohli's fitness alone will allow him to play ODI cricket for another couple of years. Eventhough his reflexes and hand-eye coordination have been in decline for a while now, the flat pitches and strike-rotation mastery will still allow him to continue to find success in this format

Even at his age his level of fitness is one of the best in the world
 
Rohit is hanging on by a thread now. Even a couple of failures will put a question mark because he's keeping Jaiswal out.

Abhishek is knocking down the door of selection too.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Kohli's fitness alone will allow him to play ODI cricket for another couple of years. Eventhough his reflexes and hand-eye coordination have been in decline for a while now, the flat pitches and strike-rotation mastery will still allow him to continue to find success in this format

Even at his age his level of fitness is one of the best in the world
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Most of KOhli era was defined by top heavy batting where Dhawan/Rohit/Kohli did bulk of the work. Going forward under Gambhir it is going to be distributed across 8 batsmen which will eliminate the 2017, 2019 moments where lower order got stumbled after one top order collapse. This is a much more sustainable approach to win tournaments than top heavy. There won't be any super heroes. But there will be a lot of mini super heroes.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Most of KOhli era was defined by top heavy batting where Dhawan/Rohit/Kohli did bulk of the work. Going forward under Gambhir it is going to be distributed across 8 batsmen which will eliminate the 2017, 2019 moments where lower order got stumbled after one top order collapse. This is a much more sustainable approach to win tournaments than top heavy. There won't be any super heroes. But there will be a lot of mini super heroes.
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That's the way to go in white-ball these days. ODI is basically just an extended version of T20 at this point.
 
India as a team is too big to fail, so they will do well regardless of whoever is captain. In my opinion though Shreyas Iyer looks like best option to be captain in that team.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
India as a team is too big to fail, so they will do well regardless of whoever is captain. In my opinion though Shreyas Iyer looks like best option to be captain in that team.
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Being captain of all 3 formats is a thankless job. It will stress you out. Kohli was a good test captain. But a poor LOI captain. He built the team poorly. I think with Gambhir team building job is not in Gill' s control anymore. He will decide the XI. The idea of opening the bowling with Dube in Asia cup final is straight out of Gambhir's coaching book.
 
Good decision considering Rohit will not be the best in next 2 years, not too sure about Gill though.
 
Devadwal said:
Rohit was playing just one format. That too ODI. No domestic cricket. His stocks were falling. It is right choice to make Gill ODI captain, gives him enough time to prepare for 2027 wc. P.S Iyer is more deserving but he is not in the good books post 2023 wc.

:kp
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Always wondered why is player like Iyer not a regular member of India team ? Why is he not in good books?
 
mango_bite77 said:
Always wondered why is player like Iyer not a regular member of India team ? Why is he not in good books?
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Shreyas skipped domestic cricket for some IPL practice which irked Ajit Agarkar & Gambhir. Gambhir also has some personal issues with Shreyas as he left KKR after winning the trophy in 2024. Gambhir was the head coach of KKR.

The back issue has also hampered Shreyas, but he is too good a player to miss out on the T20I side, Gill shouldn't be in T20I team, Shreyas or Jaiswal should be in that team but....
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Being captain of all 3 formats is a thankless job. It will stress you out. Kohli was a good test captain. But a poor LOI captain. He built the team poorly. I think with Gambhir team building job is not in Gill' s control anymore. He will decide the XI. The idea of opening the bowling with Dube in Asia cup final is straight out of Gambhir's coaching book.
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Kohli was a decent captain won 65 out of 92 matches, won almost every bilateral ODI series home & away except in England. He led India to Champions Trophy 2017 final & World Cup 2019 semi-final, bad decisions on both days knocked his team out.
 
harshjoshi87 said:
Kohli was a decent captain won 65 out of 92 matches, won almost every bilateral ODI series home & away except in England. He led India to Champions Trophy 2017 final & World Cup 2019 semi-final, bad decisions on both days knocked his team out.
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No. He never built a good team. Mostly pulled through impeccable bowling/batting performances. He never built a team for "what if"scenario. He did the same with RCB for years. No results. Teams poorer than RCB won titles because they structured the team better.
 
The way Gill is promoted for the captaincy in all the formats (soon in T20 also) doesnt seem organic..Gill being a good player, still to prove yet as a big match player and a captaincy material esp in white ball format. Shreyas has always shown better batting and proven captaincy skills. Unfortunately he is not in good books with Gambhir.

Also it's an injustice for Rohit to just get selected as a player and not a captain inspite of winning CT recently. This Indicates that he is not in scheme of things for WC2027. Rather I would have dropped him and make him to retire similar to the test or play him as a captain and give him a farewell this series..both Kohli and Rohit deserves a farewell.
 
Tests and ODI are fine, but someone get Gill out of T20s!!! His game is not made for it. I suspect it’ll impact his Test and ODI batting too.
Jaiswal should be a shoo in for T20s.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
No. He never built a good team. Mostly pulled through impeccable bowling/batting performances. He never built a team for "what if"scenario. He did the same with RCB for years. No results. Teams poorer than RCB won titles because they structured the team better.
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no he had a good team which underperformed in two knockout matches. Dhawan-Rohit at the top, him at 3 & likes of Dhoni & Kedar at 5-6 with Pandya at 7 & Jadeja at 8. Dhoni should have crossed the line against New Zealand in 2019 semi-final with all the experience he had but he didn't deliver. Dhoni didn't even stop Kohli from bowling 1st in 2017 CT final inspite of India beating Pakistan in league match of that CT by batting first.
 
harshjoshi87 said:
no he had a good team which underperformed in two knockout matches. Dhawan-Rohit at the top, him at 3 & likes of Dhoni & Kedar at 5-6 with Pandya at 7 & Jadeja at 8. Dhoni should have crossed the line against New Zealand in 2019 semi-final with all the experience he had but he didn't deliver. Dhoni didn't even stop Kohli from bowling 1st in 2017 CT final inspite of India beating Pakistan in league match of that CT by batting first.
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That is the thing. He never had bowling, batting depth. Bowlers just bowled not much of batting skills. Batsmen just batted. No bowling skills. It is not one off matches. He had the strongest batting order in IPL history still couldn't win it because he always built a top heavy unit. Middle and lower order were always undercooked.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
That is the thing. He never had bowling, batting depth. Bowlers just bowled not much of batting skills. Batsmen just batted. No bowling skills. It is not one off matches. He had the strongest batting order in IPL history still couldn't win it because he always built a top heavy unit. Middle and lower order were always undercooked.
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India were the best ODI side during Virat's tenure as captain. Virat had the team but few mistakes cost them the silverware.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
Rohit is hanging on by a thread now. Even a couple of failures will put a question mark because he's keeping Jaiswal out.

Abhishek is knocking down the door of selection too.
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Jaiswal
Abhishek
Gill

This should be top 3 for india followed by Iyer , KL , Parag and Pandya

:kp
 
harshjoshi87 said:
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India were the best ODI side during Virat's tenure as captain. Virat had the team but few mistakes cost them the silverware.
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His team was good for bilaterals. Not for tournaments. That is an art in itself. You don't need amazing players in your side. You just need a team that cover all kind of scenarios. Essentially depth. Indian batting depth won us 1983 world cup. 2007 world T20 as well. MSD promoted Yusuf to open. Had a longish line up which added us valuable runs.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
His team was good for bilaterals. Not for tournaments. That is an art in itself. You don't need amazing players in your side. You just need a team that cover all kind of scenarios. Essentially depth. Indian batting depth won us 1983 world cup. 2007 world T20 as well. MSD promoted Yusuf to open. Had a longish line up which added us valuable runs.
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Dhoni had mentally stronger players like Gambhir & Yuvraj in the team who could play serious cricket under pressure, Virat too played a 40 run knock during the CT 2013 final. Virat didn't have that luxury which ended his captaincy career with zero tournament wins.
 
I just hope Virat don't play the next ODI World Cup. He is a gone case. With Rohit, I'll judge himself based on his future performance.
 
I don't know how he is in ODI and yes it is different format but he did well in the test series over a tough 5 match period.

It seems a good choice to someone like me.
 
harshjoshi87 said:
Gill has had tough time under pressure, except for 91 at Gabba & recent 100 vs England in the 4th test, Gill has cracked under pressure regularly. A fit Pandya/Pant would have been much better choice but Gill seems to have the blessings of the BCCI, head coach & chief selector.
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Is Pant a guarantee ODI selection?

Also I don't think BCCI rate Pandaya as a leader. I don't get that impression that he is a serious leadership contender and he probably never will be.
 
Even if Rohit and Virat don't play the WC in '27, we have Jaiswal and Tilak Varma.

Tilak Varma needs to be in the Indian squad right now.

The only puzzling thing about the team announcement is Gambhir's continuous endorsement of Harshit Rana. He's not even a top prospect in IPL, let alone the Indian team.
 
As much as ICT fans will miss Rohit and Kohli, let's not forget that they've had their chances. In 2015, 2019 (truly horrible performance in the semis) and 2023.

2023 was a tough pill to swallow as the Indian team was in sublime form throughout the tournament. And it's hard to pin it down to either of Rohit or Kohli (both played well enough), but the fact remains that they have had their chances in the ODI world cups so far.
 
Effect of ODI wc 2023 loss....in past history no captain or batsman surviewed if they lost ODI wc final. Remembered me as 1996 wc final loss of Australia against srilanka..Mark tailor is eventually retired after that loss.Same case with mahela jayvardane after 2011 wc final lost....

dravidthewall said:
jayvardane after 2011 wc final lost....
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But not rohit Sharma fault as he played well in wc 2023 final ..it was subhmab gill rash shot that makes the downfall of Indian team in that final.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Is Pant a guarantee ODI selection?

Also I don't think BCCI rate Pandaya as a leader. I don't get that impression that he is a serious leadership contender and he probably never will be.
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Pant's accident has cost him his place in ODI cricket, he had made a match & series winning 100 vs England in England back in 2022 before that car crash. He won't be part of ODI 11 until Rahul keeps performing.

Pandya has fitness issues since 2023 World Cup which is why he was dropped from T20 captaincy by Gambhir & Agarkar.
 
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