Mohammad Kaif Said on Indian Cricket: Former Indian batsman Mohammad Kaif believes that senior players Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be happy to see the youngsters performing well after retiring from the T20 format. Rohit Sharma led India to the T20 World Cup title in June this year and along with Kohli announced his retirement from the format.
After the retirement of these two, young players like Abhishek Verma, Sanju Samson and Tilak Verma took the responsibility and performed well under the leadership of new captain Suryakumar Yadav. Kaif's comments come after Tilak scored his maiden T20 International century in the third T20 International against South Africa on Wednesday, while Abhishek scored a half-century in 25 balls to take India to 219/6 and match 11 at Centurion. Won by runs.
Earlier, in the first match of the series, Samson scored his second consecutive T20 century and became the first Indian batsman to do so. Kaif wrote on X, 'It will be great for Virat and Rohit to see Tilak Verma, Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson scoring runs in the difficult batting conditions of South Africa.
When it comes to T20, it wouldn't be wrong to say that he has left Indian cricket in safe hands. After the retirement of Rohit and Kohli, India's T20 International career has been very easy. It seems that Team India will not face any major obstacles in defending its title in 2026.
After winning the T20 World Cup title, the Shubman Gill-led Indian team defeated Zimbabwe 4-1 in the five-match T20 series. After that Suryakumar was made the captain of the T20 team. Under his leadership, India defeated Sri Lanka and Bangladesh by the same margin of 3-0. Now India is leading 2-1 in the ongoing T20 series against South Africa and will play the last match of the series in Johannesburg.
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