Zee Poll: Rohit Sharma is popular choice to replace Virat Kohli as captain over Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul

Rohit Sharma emerged as overwhelming favourite and the fan’s choice according to Zee Poll to replace Virat Kohli as T20 captain.

Indian captain Virat Kohli has already announced last month that T20 World Cup 2021 will be his last tournament as skipper in the shortest format of the game. Mumbai Indian captain and Team India opener is considered favourite to take over from Kohli in T20s and possibly even in the ODIs as well.

Zee News English conducted a poll on social media, where we asked our readers, “Who is the best choice to replace Virat Kohli as India's T20 captain?” with three choices – Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul.

Rohit Sharma emerged as overwhelming favourite and the fan’s choice according to Zee Poll to replace Kohli as T20 captain. The 34-year-old India opener tallied 71.2 per cent of the votes as compared to 14.4 per cent notched up by both Pant and Rahul.