‘Shreyas Iyer and Tilak Varma don’t deserve guaranteed seats’: Mohammad Kaif questions Indian leadership’s calls | Cricket News

Tilak Varma and Shreyas Iyer Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif expressed disappointment over the team’s composition appointing Shreyas Iyer as captain and Tilak Varma as vice-captain.Speaking on his YouTube channel, Kaif said that these two batters do not deserve a guaranteed place in the playing XI but they are still given leadership roles. Calling Tilak’s selection a “50-50 decision”, Kaif alleged that the appointment of Iyer and Varma as captain and vice-captain ultimately led to Sanju Samson’s ouster.“You have made two players captain and vice-captain who probably don’t even deserve a guaranteed spot in the playing XI in every match. Yes, Tilak is a 50-50 challenge. He has won matches and played well. I don’t deny that. But the problem is that you don’t have any flexibility anymore. Once you make them captain and vice-captain, they automatically cannot be dropped. And because of this, you will end up dropping Sanju,” said High.Kaif also said that the people who appointed Iyer as captain should be questioned, adding that he could not recall the player directly returning to the T20I team as captain.“That’s why I think sacking Sanju was an important decision. You could have handled the situation differently. If Shreyas Iyer were not the captain, you could have told him, “You have done well and earned your place in the team, but there is no place for you in the playing XI now. Wait for your opportunity. Stay with the team and we’ll see how things go.”“Firstly, we will give these three players (Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Samson) a chance.” The people who made this decision deserve to be questioned. I don’t think this has ever happened in the history of Indian cricket where someone who wasn’t even part of the T20 team immediately came back as captain. I don’t think this has ever happened before,” he added.In the ongoing T20I series against England, Iyer scored 110 runs while Tilak scored 40 runs. The duo will continue to lead India in the fourth match of the five-match T20I series on Thursday.