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New Delhi<\/strong>: Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya is all set to lead India in the three-match T20 International series against Sri Lanka starting July 27.<\/p>\n However, one of the heroes of India\u2019s T20 World Cup victory last month will take a break during the three-match ODI series, which is scheduled in August, due to \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cHardik Pandya was India\u2019s T2O vice-captain under Rohit Sharma. He is completely fit and available for the three-match T20I series and will lead the side,\u201d a senior BCCI source said.<\/p>\n Rohit retired from T20 Internationals at the end of the World Cup.<\/p>\n The T20Is against Sri Lanka will run from July 27 to 30 in Pallekele, followed by the ODIs from August 2 to 7 in Colombo. The squad for the series is expected to be announced in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n While there is still no clarity on who would be Pandya\u2019s deputy, the toss-up is between Shubman Gill, who recently captained India to a 4-1 series win over Zimbabwe, and Suryakumar Yadav, who led the side during the T20Is against South Africa last year.<\/p>\n About the ODIs, the official confirmed that Pandya has asked for leave and has already communicated this to regular skipper Rohit Sharma, who is also taking a break from this series.<\/p>\n \u201cThe break from ODIs is for very personal reasons. Hardik doesn\u2019t have any fitness issue as is being floated in the media,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n For the ODIs, KL Rahul, who led in the last ODI series in South Africa, and Gill are in contention for the leadership role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya is all set to lead India in the three-match T20 International series against Sri Lanka starting July 27. However, one of the heroes of India\u2019s T20 World Cup victory last month will take a break during the three-match ODI series, which is scheduled in August, due to \u201cpersonal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Hardik-Pandya-gets-Heros-Welcome-at-Wankhede-A-Month-After-Being-Trolled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35253,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35252\/revisions\/35253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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