Rohit Sharma
The Indian cricket team is going through a change of change these days. Within the last 10 days, two legendary batsmen of Team India Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced to retire from Test cricket. Fans and former cricketers are quite surprised by this decision of both the players. Meanwhile, former head coach of Team India Ravi Shastri has given a big statement about Rohit Sharma’s retirement.
Ravi Shastri said that if he had been the coach of Team India, he would never exclude Rohit Sharma from the Sydney Test match. Let us tell you that Rohit was going through poor form in Test cricket for a long time. He did not bat in the Test series against Australia, due to which he was out of the Sydney Test match. In the domestic series against Bangladesh and New Zealand, Rohit was able to cross the 50 -run mark only once.
Ravi Shastri made a big statement on Rohit Sharma’s Test retirement
At the ICC review show, Ravi Shastri said that he saw Rohit a lot during the toss during IPL matches. At the time of the toss, he did not get enough time to talk to Rohit. However, he put his hand on Rohit’s shoulder before a match. This was probably done in a Mumbai match. He told Rohit before the match started that if he had been a coach, he would not do Rohit out of the Sydney Test match.
Shastri said that he would give Rohit a chance in the last Test match, because the series did not end there. He is not a person who would give up with a scorline of 2-1. It was not an opportunity where a player leaves the team. It was a match in which 30-40 runs would also have been enough.
Rohit Sharma’s figures in Test cricket
Talking about Rohit Sharma, he played his Test career 67 matches. During this time he scored 4301 runs at an average of 40.57, including 12 centuries. His highest score in the Test is 212 runs. Let us know that in 2022, Rohit was appointed as the Test captain of India. In his career, Rohit led Team India in 24 Tests, out of which the team won in 12 matches. Under his captaincy, India managed to reach the 2023 WTC final, but there he had to face defeat at the hands of Australia.
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