{"id":3731,"date":"2022-05-18T18:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=222580"},"modified":"2022-05-18T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T13:34:09","slug":"ipl-2022-leading-contestants-for-captaining-indian-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl-2022-leading-contestants-for-captaining-indian-cricket-team\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2022: Leading contestants for captaining Indian cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"

IPL 2022 has witnessed a boom in the number of Indian players captaining the sides and hence the Indian Cricket is larger than just fine-fettle. As the IPL 2022 moves into the final week of its league with play-offs on edge, teams are still in the contention to make it through the knockout stage. The new season bought the co-occurrence of two new seasons and a change in leadership at many franchises. Let\u2019s analyze how these progressive captains have faced the game so far.<\/p>\n

Hardik Pandya<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Hardik Pandya<\/a> astonished everyone with his fine leadership skills in his captaincy debut. His captaincy stunt helped the Gujarat Titans<\/a> qualify as the top team in their debut season. The all-rounder is aggressive in bringing out the best from his team. Pandya has developed a fearless mindset in the Gujarat Camp that can be seen in some of the GT\u2019s innings this season. Hardik shows calmness on the ground. Hardik the Captain has been a new surprise fact this season. He credited Mumbai Indians for his success as the captain of Gujarat Titans, \u201cIt has helped me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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KL Rahul<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New arrivals Lucknow Super Giants<\/a>\u2018 purchase of KL Rahul<\/a> made him the highest-paid player in the league and it is quite equitable to say that the Indian Vice-Captain has met the expectations of the Franchise. LSG has almost registered a berth in the playoffs and could finish at 2nd place in the points table. As a leader, Rahul has led from the front with two centuries and is the second-highest run-getter next to Jos Buttler<\/a> in the league.<\/p>\n

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Rishabh Pant<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rishabh Pant has done extraordinarily well in leading Delhi Capitals<\/a> to a fighting place on the leader board. At the beginning of the season, Delhi struggled with the absence of overseas players and was then affected by Covid \u2013 19 twice, forcing the entire team into the bio bubble. His form is inconsistent but he is phenomenal as a leader this season.<\/p>\n

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With an increasing number of captains taking the field, it will be important to understand who should take the batten of captaining India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":26789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[143,407,927,324],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-ipl","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-indian-cricket","tag-k-l-rahul","tag-rishabh-pant"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}