“Hardik Pandya Would Say This Is The Best For Me”: Robin Uthappa On T20I Captaincy Twist

Former India cricketer Robin Uthappa has mentioned that Hardik Pandya mustn’t really feel exhausting completed by for not being given a captaincy position for Team India, and will as an alternative have a look at the larger image. Uthappa acknowledged that, realizing Hardik personally, the latter would additionally suppose that the choice has been taken preserving the most effective for Hardik in thoughts. After the appointment of recent coach Gautam Gambhir, Pandya was retained in no management roles within the white-ball codecs, along with his health and availability being the foremost purpose behind it, in accordance with chief selector Ajit Agarkar.

Uthappa mentioned that not having the burden of captaincy would guarantee Hardik an extended worldwide profession.

“If I was in Hardik’s place, I would feel taken care of to a certain extent,” mentioned Uthappa, responding to a query by NDTV.

“If I am 34 or 35 years old, and I am someone who has been injury-prone throughout my career, and a certain responsibility has been taken away from me with the mindset of extending my career, it has given me the best chance of offering my service to my country, for as long as possible. Keeping that in mind, I would actually say, this is the best thing for me,” added Uthappa.

“Knowing Hardik Pandya on a certain level personally, I would say he’ll be someone saying ‘fine, their perspective is also right’. They want a player of my quality and calibre to serve the country for as long as possible, I would love to do that as well,” mentioned Uthappa.

“If you ask me between the two what would I pick, I would say representing my country and winning as many world cup championships, irrespective of the fact whether I am the captain or just a player,” continued Uthappa.

Pandya is in India’s squad for each the T20I and ODI collection in opposition to Sri Lanka.