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Sourav Ganguly connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) said that keeping the 2027 ODI World Cup successful caput it was a just determination to beforehand Shubman Gill arsenic India’s one-day skipper successful spot of Rohit Sharma.
Ganguly, a erstwhile India captain, assumed that the determination was taken successful consultation with Rohit.
“Rohit has been an outstanding leader. In the past 2 years, helium has won the T20 World Cup and the Champions Trophy. I deliberation what has gone successful the selectors’ caput is successful 2 years’ time, erstwhile they spell to South Africa, helium volition beryllium 40 years old,” Ganguly told reporters astatine an lawsuit of Annapurna Snacks here.
“Ten years down the enactment erstwhile Gill gets adjacent to 40...he volition besides person to look this situation. In sport, whether it’s Federer, Sampras, Nadal oregon Maradona, they volition each person to decorativeness immoderate day.
“It’s not a atrocious determination to beforehand Gill. He has shown a batch of endowment (as a batter and a skipper during the Test series) successful England. I deliberation it has been done successful consultation with Rohit. It’s a just call. Rohit tin support playing and you support grooming a young captain.”
Ganguly said the seasoned duo of Rohit and Virat Kohli – who person retired from T20Is and Tests – indispensable play regularly. “It depends connected however acceptable they stay and however they perform. Whatever accidental they get (they indispensable use), they person to play home cricket. Otherwise, you suffer touch, signifier and contact,” said Ganguly.
