"Not A Big Fan Of...": Ex-India Star's Blunt Take On 3 Captains For South Africa Tour

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced three separate captains in the three formats for the Indian cricket team for the upcoming tour of South Africa. While Rohit Sharma will continue as the Test captain, Suryakumar Yadav was named the T20I captain while KL Rahul will lead the side in ODIs. While the decision was largely impacted by the unavailability of Hardik Pandya due to injury, Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan was not pleased with the decision taken by the team management to go with three captains but pointed out that this can go on to be the norm in the near future.

"This could be a sign for the future, which I am not a big fan of. There has been talk for a long time about whether we can do split captaincy. It's true workload management has been done here and that is why you are seeing such big squads and different captains," Pathan said on Star Sports.

"It's clear that Rohit had to take a break from white-ball cricket, so you are not seeing him there. You are seeing him as the captain for Test cricket. However, you might see these things going forward. You might even see different coaches for different formats. I believe it's better if it doesn't happen in our culture."

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India's squad for Tests:Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh Krishna.

India's squad for 3 T20Is:Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (C), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Ravindra Jadeja (VC),