{"id":9747,"date":"2009-09-08T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/09\/08\/i-dont-want-to-be-captain-admits-sehwag\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:29:10","slug":"i-dont-want-to-be-captain-admits-sehwag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/08\/i-dont-want-to-be-captain-admits-sehwag\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t want to be captain\u2019, admits Sehwag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Indian batsman distances himself from hot seat<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"287\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/VirenderSwhwag_180x232.jpg\"\/>INDIAN batsman Virender Sehwag has shot down the possibility of leading his team as captain.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 30-year-old told an Indian news channel he had no intention of replacing current captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He suggested the Indian cricket board should instead pick a vice-captain who can be groomed to take over the reins after captain Dhoni. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a captain, I have already told selectors about it. I have said that a new player should be made vice-captain and be groomed to be a captain,&#8221; Sehwag told Indian news channel <em>News24<\/em>. &#8220;I want that I should continue to score runs and keep winning matches for the team.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sehwag has had two spells as vice captain \u2013 the first in October 2005 when Rahul Dravid replaced Sourav Ganguly as captain, and a second spell earlier this year in the lead-up to the World T20 tournament. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>While both spells ended abruptly due to loss of form and injury, Sehwag is convinced he does not want to take Indian cricketing hot seat. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The one thing he is sure about is who ranks in his heart as the greatest player to ever lead India. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Sourav Ganguly has been the best captain India ever had,&#8221; Sehwag said. &#8220;Sourav took over as captain of the India cricket team when it was going through a very bad patch. The Indian team was struggling to put come out of the match-fixing scandal. He had a responsibility to put together a new team and he did a splendid job.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian batsman distances himself from hot seat INDIAN batsman Virender Sehwag has shot down the possibility of leading his team as captain. &#13; The 30-year-old told an Indian news channel he had no intention of replacing current captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. &#13; He suggested the Indian cricket board should instead pick a vice-captain who can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}