former indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif Expressed his disappointment with the appointment of team selectors Shreyas Iyer as captain and Tilak Varma Vice Captain Ace.Kaif said on his YouTube channel that the two batsmen should not have been given guaranteed places in the starting XI but were still given leadership roles. Calling Tilak’s choice “50-50”, Kaif feels having Iyer and Varma as captain and vice-captain ultimately led to Sanzhou Samsonexclusion.“You make two players captain and vice-captain and they may not even deserve a guaranteed spot in the starting XI for every game. Yes, Tilak is a 50-50 player. He wins matches and plays well. I don’t deny that. But the problem is that you don’t have any flexibility anymore. Once you make them captain and vice-captain, they are automatically non-replaceable. Because of this, you end up dropping Sanju,” Kaif said.Kaif further said that the person who appointed Iyer as captain should be questioned, adding that he could not recall any player returning directly to the T20I team as captain.“That’s why I feel dropping Sanju is a big decision. You can handle the situation in different ways. If Shreyas Iyer is not the captain, you can tell him, ‘You have done well and earned your place in the team but now there is no place for you in the starting XI. Wait for your opportunity. Stay in the team and we will see how things develop.’“First, we will give a chance to these three players (Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Samson). “Whoever took this decision deserves to be questioned. I don’t think anything like this has ever happened in the history of Indian cricket: a guy who wasn’t even part of the T20 team came straight back as captain. I don’t think this has ever happened before,” he added.In the ongoing T20I series against England, Iyer has scored 110 runs while Tilak has scored 40 runs. The duo will continue to lead India in the fourth match of the five-match T20I series on Thursday.
