India, June 6 -- From Rohit Sharma to Suryakumar Yadav to Shreyas Iyer, the Mumbai link to India captaincy stays. But the national selectors chose to look ahead rather than give in to emotion as they rang in changes in the leadership group for the new T20I World Cup cycle.

In that churn, Surya, who led India to the successful T20 World Cup defence in March, lost his captaincy as well as his spot to Iyer, who starts as the new skipper with the Ireland and England series in June-July. Tilak Varma will be his deputy, replacing Axar Patel in that role.

The 23-year-old Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians batter is being groomed as a future leader. He will captain India A in this month's tri-series in Sri Lanka. The Iyer-Varma duo will also be in ch...