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IPL 2026 has now reached its final stage. All the matches of the league stage have also been completed. After this, Team India will play its next international series against Afghanistan, which will include Test and ODI matches. After IPL, India will play its first T20 International match against Ireland. Meanwhile, there are also reports that the T20 captaincy of Team India may be taken away from Suryakumar Yadav. In such a situation, the Indian captains who have led their teams brilliantly in IPL 2026 are being considered as strong contenders for T20 captaincy.

Let us tell you that Suryakumar Yadav has won many matches for the team under his captaincy but runs are not coming out of his bat continuously. The same situation was seen in IPL 2026 also. Sometimes he is scoring runs but the pace of scoring runs seems quite slow. Talking about T20 International matches, Suryakumar Yadav’s last half-century with the bat came 8 matches ago, which he scored against America. Earlier, he had also scored a half-century against New Zealand.

From the year 2023 till now, Suryakumar Yadav has captained Team India in a total of 52 matches. Out of these matches, India has won 40 matches, while it has lost 8 matches. 2 matches were tied and 2 matches had no result. In this way his winning percentage has been 76.92. In IPL 2026, he played 13 matches and scored 270 runs at an average of 20.76. During this period, he also scored two half-centuries, but both these half-centuries came after playing a lot of balls.

These captains are strong contenders for IPL 2026

• Shreyas Iyer: If Suryakumar Yadav is removed from the captaincy of the Indian T20 team, then the name of Shreyas Iyer is emerging as the biggest contender. Under his captaincy, Kolkata Knight Riders also won the trophy and he also captained the Punjab Kings brilliantly from IPL 2025 to 2026. During this period he has also played many excellent innings. This season, Iyer also scored the first century of his IPL career and has also scored 5 half-centuries.
• Shubhman Gill: Shubman Gill is already captaining Team India’s Test and ODI team. However, till now he has captained only 6 matches in ODI, out of which only 2 have been successful. Talking about IPL, Gill is captaining Gujarat Titans from 2024. Under his captaincy the team has reached the playoffs twice consecutively. This season, Gill himself is in excellent form and is scoring a lot of runs. He is currently at second position in the Orange Cap race.
• Ishan Kishan: Ishan Kishan has made a strong comeback in the Indian team by making Jharkhand win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy under his captaincy. While captaining Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2026, he led 4 wins in the first 7 matches. So far in IPL 2026, he has scored 569 runs in 14 matches and has also scored 6 half-centuries. Due to this excellent form, he has now also joined the race for Team India’s T20 captaincy.