According to Akash Chopra’s claim, the cricketer can become India’s captain in T20 international cricket after IPL 2026. According to former Indian team cricketer Akash Chopra, if Shreyas Iyer If he performs well for Punjab as captain in IPL 2026, he will be India’s next T20 captain. It may be noted that Iyer was not part of Team India which recently won the T20 world champion.

Akash Chopra is betting on him for the captaincy. Shreyas, however, last played a T20I for India in 2023. Although he has played regularly in the ODI team for the last 3-4 years, he has had very few opportunities to play in the shortest format of cricket.

The 31-year-old Iyer has so far played 51 T20Is for India and has scored 1,104 runs at an average of 30.66 and a strike rate of 136.12. Now the big question is, why former cricketer Akash Chopra Want to rely on Iyer as a captain? He said on his YouTube channel, he felt Shreyas Of course he could have been in the T20 World Cup team, but he didn’t.

According to him, there could be a spot in the middle order—can Iyer step in? If he stakes his claim for leadership again, he could be India’s next T20 captain as well.