Difficulties seem to be increasing for Shubhman Gill. In the same year, he was given the captaincy of the Test team and then the ODI team. Apart from this, he also remained the vice-captain of the T20 team. On December 20, when the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup 2026 was announced, Shubman Gill was nowhere to be seen. Now there is news that the captaincy of the ODI team can be taken away from Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer can become the new captain.

Shreyas Iyer will become ODI captain?

It is being claimed in the reports that Shreyas Iyer can be appointed as the new captain of the Indian ODI team. Shreyas is currently the vice-captain of the ODI team. Iyer has a lot of captaincy experience, he has captained his team from domestic cricket to IPL also. There is a strong discussion on social media about making Shreyas the vice-captain of the ODI team.

In October this year, before the ODI series against Australia, Shubman Gill was made the captain of the ODI team. Shreyas Iyer became the vice-captain along with him. If these reports remain true, then Shreyas Iyer will be the 29th cricketer who will have the privilege of captaining the Indian ODI team.

Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, India has played 3 ODI matches so far, in which it has won only one. Team India lost the ODI series 1-2 on the Australian tour. The speculation about Gill being removed from ODI captaincy just before the T20 World Cup 2026 is indicating that his future in all three formats does not seem secure.

Shubman Gill out of T20

The recent T20 form of Shubman Gill, who has been the vice-captain of the T20 team for the last few months, has been very bad. Whereas in the T20 series against South Africa, he scored only 32 runs in 3 matches. It was reported that he could not play the fourth and fifth T20 matches due to injury, but some reports claimed that the management had already decided to drop Gill, which was the reason why he did not play the fifth T20 match. Now it is certain that Gill will not play the 2026 T20 World Cup.

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Bcci on shreyas iyer odi capticy: The Indian cricket team has seen many major decisions in the last year. While Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from Test and T20 cricket, Ravichandran Ashwin retired from all the formats of cricket. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) handed over the captaincy of the Test team to Shubman Gill and also included many new faces in the team. At the same time, a news recently spread like fire that BCCI Shreyas Iyer can make India’s ODI team captain. BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia has clarified this on this matter.

What did BCCI say on Iyer’s captaincy?

Speaking to Hindustan Times, BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia said that Shreyas Iyer got the captaincy in ODIs, ‘This is a new thing for me. There has been no discussion about this. Devjit Saikia has completely rejected the matter of Iyer being made ODI.

Who is the captain of India’s ODI team?

Rohit has retired from T20 and Test cricket. Right now, India also won the Champions Trophy under Rohit’s captaincy. Now India has to play an ODI series against Australia in October, in which only Rohit Sharma can be seen captaining the team. Rohit’s retirement from ODI was also being speculated. But no statement has been issued by BCCI and Rohit Sharma in this regard.

Who will get Rohit Sharma in place?

Rohit Sharma remains the captain of the ODI team right now, but in such a situation, a question comes out whether Rohit will remain with the team till 2027 ODI World Cup or another player will be given the command of the ODI team instead of the hitman.

Shreyas Iyer is the big contender?

Speculations about Shreyas Iyer’s name were also being made because Iyer has been performing better in IPL for the last two years. Shreyas won the IPL title to Kolkata Knight Riders in 2024 and took the team to the finals in 2025 this year, taking charge of Punjab Kings. At the same time, Iyer was also part of the team winning the Champions Trophy of India this year.

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