Krunal Pandya steps down as Baroda captain
All-rounder Krunal Pandya has made up our minds to step down as Baroda group captain from the drawing close home season. The 30-year-old knowledgeable the Baroda Cricket Affiliation (BCA) president Pranav Amin thru electronic mail on Friday night.
In his electronic mail, which was once accessed by way of The Indian information, Pandya wrote, “That is to place on file that I can be unavailable to guide Baroda within the present home season. Then again, I can be to be had for variety to play for the group. I can be offering my absolute best as a group member and participant to Baroda cricket. My give a boost to and contribution will all the time be in the most productive hobby of the group.”
Beneath Pandya’s captaincy, the group had an underwhelming run within the lately concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy the place they completed closing in Crew B. The group controlled to win only one recreation in 5 fits and didn’t qualify for the knock-outs for the home T20 event.
Within the 5 video games, Pandya scored 87 runs with one part century and took 5 wickets at an financial system charge of five.94. This got here underneath the fee of recent Baroda trainer Dav Whatmore, whose tenure on the group were given off to a disappointing get started.
It’s understood that BCA will now appoint veteran Kedar Devdhar as captain whilst left-arm spinner Bhargav Bhatt could be appointed vice-captain of the group for upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy, which is scheduled to be performed subsequent month. Devdhar had prior to now captained the group to the overall of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy closing yr.
Pandya took over as skipper two seasons in the past, however his time as captain was once marred by way of a couple of controversies.
Closing yr, Deepak Hooda, who later moved to Rajasthan, had written an electronic mail to BCA the place he had made a chain of allegations about Pandya after he had spat with the Mumbai Indians participant.
“At this second, I’m demoralised, depressed and underneath force. As from the previous few days, my group captain Mr Kurnal Pandiya is the use of abusing language in opposition to me in entrance of my teammates and in addition different state groups who’ve come for participation at Reliance Stadium Vadodara,” Hooda, who represented Kings XI Punjab within the IPL, wrote.
Hooda later made up our minds to transport on from BCA and represented Rajasthan this season.
