Ajit Agarkar’s national selection committee preferred to have attacking batsman Suryakumar Yadav as skipper in the three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka starting on July 27 at Pallekele.  

Suryakumar will replace his Mumbai teammate Rohit Sharma, who led from the front to win the T20 World Cup held in USA and West Indies last month but retired from the shortest form of the game after the triumph.