India, Jan. 21 -- Shubman Gill's ouster from the T20I squad for the World Cup came as a shocker, but former Australia skipper Michael Clarke fully expects India's ODI and Test captain to take command of the T20I side after the ICC tournament gets over. Clarke, the 2015 World Cup-winning captain, reckons BCCI's decision to drop Gill from India's T20 scheme of things was taken keeping the World Cup in mind. With runs not flowing and his bat having gone quiet, Gill endured a torrid time after his ultra-successful Test tour of England, scoring just 291 runs in his last 15 T20I innings for India.

Clarke is confident that Ajit Agarkar took that decision because of the BCCI and the management's razor-sharp focus on the immediate goal: winning t...