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Rohit Sharma, the captain of India, led the team to a famous win in the final of the T20 World Cup 2024 against South Africa by seven runs in a last-over thriller. After holding the trophy at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, in the press conference, the 37-year-old announced his sudden retirement from T20Is, ending a legendary career in the format spanning 17 long years.
The Nagpur-born cricketer batted in a controlled manner in the T20I format for years, but in the last few months, he successfully changed himself into an explosive starter at the top order, which will make it quite hard for the selectors to find a replacement for him in the setup. With that, SportsTiger looks at the three players who can replace Rohit Sharma in the Indian T20I team.
Yashasvi Jaiswal
Yashasvi Jaiswal, the left-handed opening batter, who was a part of the Indian cricket team in the T20 World Cup 2024, didn’t get a game in the tournament due to the presence of the captain Rohit Sharma at the top of the order. But since the 22-year-old was the first choice of the selectors to replace him after setting the stage alight at the international level in the past year, scoring over 500 runs one hundred and four fifties in 16 innings at a strike rate of more than 160, he could do the same in the upcoming T20I matches for India after he retired from the format.
