“Shreyas Iyer and Tilak Varma do not deserve guaranteed places”: Mohammad Kaif questions Indian leadership’s calls | Cricket news
Former Indian cricketer Mohamed how He expressed his disappointment in the team’s selection for the appointment Shreyas Iyer As a leader and Tilak Pharma As deputy commander.Speaking on his YouTube channel, Kaif said the two batsmen did not deserve a guaranteed place in the playing XI but were still given leadership roles. Describing the selection of Tilak as a “50-50 call”, Kaif said that appointing Iyer and Varma as captain and vice-captain ultimately led to Sanju SamsonExclude.“I have made two players captain and vice-captain, who probably don’t even deserve a guaranteed place in the starting XI in every match. Yes, Tilak is a 50-50 option. He has won matches and played well. I’m not denying that. But the problem is that you don’t have any flexibility anymore. Once you make them captain and vice-captain, they are automatically irreplaceable. That’s why, you end up dropping Sanju,” Kaif said.Kaif also said that the people who appointed Iyer as captain of the team should be questioned, adding that he cannot recall a player who made a direct return to the T20I team as captain.“That’s why I feel excluding Sanju was a big decision. You could have managed the situation differently. If Shreyas Iyer had not been the captain, you could have said to him: ‘You did well and earned your place back in the team, but now there is no place for you in the starting XI.’ Wait for your chance. Stay with the team, and we’ll see how it goes.”“First, we will give these three players (Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Samson) a chance.” Whoever made this decision deserves to be questioned. I don’t think this has ever happened in the history of Indian cricket, where someone who was not even part of the T20 team comes back straight away as captain. “I don’t think this has ever happened before,” he added.In the ongoing T20I series against England, Iyer scored 110 runs, while Tilak amassed 40 runs. The duo will go on to lead India in the fourth match of the five-match T20I series on Thursday.
