Flower said Rahul has great batting skills and can lead the team well.
Kohli will lead RCB in the IPL next week and it will be his only chance to impress selectors and the management ahead of the team selection for the World Cup.
'Two of your best players are not available for either of your series is really serious for India. They have been the mainstay of your Indian batting, and the board must find out where the problem is, if at all there is any, rather than its member tweeting that there might be a rift in the side. It is not good for the morale of the side and South Africa is a good team, especially when you are playing on good hard tracks. It's altogether different from playing in any part of the world. The wickets are different.'
All-rounder Hardik Pandya was named as India's T20I captain for the three-match series against Sri Lanka, with Rohit Sharma retaining the ODI leadership role.
Matt Short will have a role in Australia's leadership group during the Twenty20 series against Pakistan and has put his hand up to stand in as captain
Any other result than India's resounding win looks highly unlikely, consdering the visitors' rampaging run in the preceding Test and ODI series, where they whitewashed the hosts 3-0 and 5-0 respectively.
Virat Kohli's record in T20 Internationals as captain is one of the best in the world, but he finished without a ICC trophy.
'He is probably the best person to ask about the discrepancy in what you seem to have to say and what the Indian captain has said.'
Cummins, who fractured his wrist during the fifth Ashes Test at the Oval (July 27-31), has been advised rest for six weeks.
'We were prepared, we knew that dew was going to play a huge role.'
Shivam Mavi hopes to build all-format career after six-wicket haul in Duleep Trophy semis
India's journey into their ODI future will hit its first stop during the opening match against South Africa on Sunday.
'India did really well under Kohli and Ravi Shastri, India played with a fearless attitude and showed guts in England and Australia.'
The four-Test Border Gavaskar Trophy that promises a lot of twists and turns, engrossing sub-plots and probably career-defining performances.
Speaking about Markram's form, Gibson said that that the 23-year-old has earlier shown what he is capable of but is currently batting out of his style.
England seamer Gus Atkinson has been named the ICC Men's Player of the Month for July 2024 after his heroics in the Test series against West Indies.
De Kock will captain the team in the absence of Faf du Plessis, who will be in India for the Test series.
'There are a lot of new players who have come up. And we won in the West Indies and in England with these new bunch of players.'
"Fearless" is how middle-order batter Suryakumar Yadav described his hurricane knock in the first T20I against Australia in Visakhapatnam and said he felt "proud" to lead the country to victory on his captaincy debut.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have a chance to cement their status as two of the best to play the 20-over format.
Impressed with his captaincy at the ODI World Cup, former captain Sourav Ganguly on Friday threw his weight behind Rohit Sharma, saying he should lead India at least till the T20 World Cup in June next year.
England will be keen to overcome a lack of ideal preparation due to rain and hit the ground running when they face Scotland in their T20 World Cup opener
Virat Kohli says it's the right time for him to relinquish T20 International captaincy. Now, he can manage his workload, after India failed to qualify for the T20 World Cup semi-finals in a disappointing campaign.
Suryakumar Yadav finds himself named captain for the T20I series against Australia
Shreyas Iyer, who has scored 200-plus runs in the series, termed all his fifties special but the second one in big chase as extra special.
The selectors were forced to go back to seniors Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli following injuries to key T20 players.
The last time England toured India, back in early 2021, Joe Root's team went back home beaten and bruised 3-1.
'The last three years have been great. Except winning the finals of ICC trophies, we have won everything.'
Dube has 350 runs in nine outings at a strike rate of 172.41, including three half-centuries.
'When a player becomes a little big, he thinks he is very big, bigger than the Board and he believes no one can touch him. Without me, Indian cricket won't work. Has this ever happened?'
'He's arguably the best Twenty20 batter in the world over a long period of time. His record's so good and he's our captain, so maybe that's what's going on off-field but in our heads we just trust him'.
'There were questions about whether I'd ever make a comeback.'
Rohit will take charge as full time India white ball captain in the upcoming series against West Indies
'I prefer to have Sanju in the middle-order because he has a lot of shots.'
Hardik said he believes in taking ownership on the field.
He is not seeing what perhaps everyone else around him is seeing: An over-commercialised player who is really an under-performing batsman, observes Sandeep Goyal.
With Virat Kohli stepping down as India's Test captain, the reign of the country's "most successful captain" in the longest format came to an end.
Former captain Sunil Gavaskar has backed Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to play in the T20 World Cup in June, saying the two senior players are not only the key batters but also terrific fielders in the Indian team.
'Believe me, Virat will go out of his way to make the new captain comfortable.'
The T20 World Cup 2024 promises to be a tournament dominated by bowlers, particularly spinners.
