IPL 2024: Many people are eagerly waiting for the Indian Premier League 2024. On November 26, all the franchises presented the list of their retained and released players. The Indian Premier League 2024 auction will be held on December 19 and before that, all the teams had to inform about their retained and released players.
With this, a piece of big news has come out today i.e. on 27th November. Gujarat Titans have announced their captain for the upcoming season. Gujarat Titans have appointed Shubman Gill as their new captain for IPL 2024. The Gujarat franchise itself has announced this through its official social media account. After Hardik Pandya went to Mumbai Indians, Shubman Gill was leading in the race for captaincy. Finally, an official announcement was made by the Gujarat franchise that Shubman Gill will be the captain of the team for the next season of IPL.
Mumbai Indians have traded Hardik Pandya to their team on 26 November. Hardik Pandya captained Gujarat Titans in the 2022 and 2023 seasons. Under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, Gujarat Titans won the trophy for the 2022 season. In the 2023 season also, this team had made its place in the finals.
However, they had to face defeat against Chennai Super Kings in the final. Mumbai made the biggest trade in IPL history by signing Hardik for Rs 15 crore.
Under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, the Gujarat Titans performed very well in both seasons. However, now the captaincy of Gujarat Titans has been given to Shubman Gill in the upcoming season. This is going to be the first time that Shubman Gill will be seen captaining a franchise in the IPL.
Gujarat Titans shared the video on their official social media account
Gujarat Titans have shared a video on their official social media account in the caption of which they have written, ‘Captain Gill’. All the fans of Gujarat Titans will be very happy that the young batsman will now be seen captaining the team in the upcoming season. Shubman Gill has performed very well in the Indian Premier League. He also batted very well in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 and scored more than 350 runs in the entire tournament.
However, now he is being entrusted with a bigger responsibility. It remains to be seen how Gill will handle this important responsibility in the upcoming season.
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