Team India's permanent T20 captain and vice-captain became finalists, BCCI handed over the responsibility to them on the insistence of coach Gautam Gambhir.

Team India is going through an era of change since the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. As soon as the Indian team won the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 title, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja announced their retirement, so that young players could get a chance.

After the retirement of Rohit Sharma, Team India needed a new T20 captain, who got the name of Suryakumar Yadav as soon as Shubman Gill and then Gautam Gambhir became the coach. Was completed.

Suryakumar Yadav will remain the captain of Team India till T20 World Cup 2026.

When Rohit Sharma announced his retirement, Suryakumar Yadav was also a part of Team India at that time and due to his 1 catch in the final, the entire match was overturned. After that Team India had to tour Zimbabwe for a 5-match T20 series, where Shubman Gill was made the new T20 captain of the Indian team. Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, India lost the first match, but after that they counterattacked and won 4 consecutive matches against Zimbabwe. Shubman Gill led the Indian team to a 4-1 victory in the series.

After Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav was made the captain of the Indian T20 team and ever since Suryakumar Yadav became the captain of Team India, amazing things have happened, the Indian team has won 3 consecutive series, in which Under the captaincy of Surya, India first defeated Sri Lanka and then succeeded in defeating Bangladesh. India defeated South Africa in 3 out of 4 matches and won the series 3-1.

T20 World Cup 2026 is going to be hosted by India this time, hence Team India is considered to be the strongest contender to win this tournament. After Suryakumar Yadav's record as captain so far, it is believed that he will remain the captain of the Indian T20 team till the T20 World Cup 2026.

Hardik Pandya may be responsible for the vice-captaincy of Team India

Hardik Pandya has special experience of captaincy and he is not a part of the Indian team in the Test format, hence he is always available for T20 and ODI formats, keeping this in mind. BCCI is considering Hardik Pandya as T20 captain. Hardik Pandya has captained the Indian team in 2023 and 2024 and during this period, the performance of Team India in T20 has also been better under his captaincy.

Apart from this, Hardik Pandya is the captain of Mumbai Indians in IPL and under his captaincy, Gujarat Titans also won the IPL 2022 title, while in IPL 2023, Gujarat team reached the final, where in the last over, the team was defeated by Chennai. Had to face defeat from Super Kings. In such a situation, BCCI and team management are also considering him as the backup of Suryakumar Yadav.