Mumbai
Big news is coming after Team India’s defeat in Melbourne Test. According to media reports, Rohit Sharma is going to say goodbye to Test cricket soon. It is claimed that Rohit Sharma will retire after the Sydney Test. Sydney Test will start from 3 January. If this match continues for five full days, then January 7 could be the last day of Rohit Sharma’s Test career.
Discussions are going on between the top officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the selectors regarding Rohit’s place in the team. The report says that the captain will try to convince the selectors to let him play if India reaches the WTC final. However, the chances of this happening are less, so this could be his last match in Sydney.
Rohit’s last test in Sydney?
According to the report of Times of India, BCCI and selectors have started talking about Rohit Sharma’s retirement. But Team India captain Rohit Sharma is trying to convince the selectors. Rohit Sharma actually wants to play the final of the World Test Championship, if the team reaches India then that match could be his last match. Although this possibility is less, in such a situation Sydney could be Rohit’s last test match.
The big thing is that this report on Rohit Sharma has come immediately after the defeat in the Melbourne Test. Team India lost by 184 runs in the Melbourne Test. There was a time when Team India could have drawn this test. Till the tea break, only 3 wickets had fallen for the Indian team but after this Rishabh Pant was out after playing a bad shot and then the Indian innings collapsed like a house of cards. Yashasvi Jaiswal played an innings of 84 runs. Apart from him, no other batsman could bother to stay on the wicket.
Rohit’s test career on the decline
Captain Rohit Sharma’s game is continuously going downwards in Test cricket. Team India faced a clean sweep in the 3-match series against New Zealand at home. In the 3 matches of this series, only 91 runs were scored from the captain’s bat. In the current series, India has played three matches under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma and lost two. He has scored only 31 runs in 5 innings of 3 matches. He has scored 3, 6, 10, 3 and now 9 runs. Rohit Sharma’s bat did not score even 15 runs.
Rohit Sharma’s shameful performance
Rohit Sharma is in bad condition on Australia tour. This player has been able to score only 31 runs in 3 matches in this series. Rohit’s batting average is 6.20. Rohit is struggling hard to stay at the crease. In the Melbourne Test, one of his decisions cost heavily on Team India. He took that place himself by removing KL Rahul from the opening and neither he walked nor KL Rahul could score runs. KL Rahul failed in both the innings while playing at number three. Looking at Rohit Sharma’s batting, it seems that he doesn’t have much time left in Test cricket. That is why now news of his retirement has started coming.
