Doubt over Rohit Sharma’s captaincy, decision will be taken after West Indies tour
The Indian team has recently lost the World Test Championship. Since the embarrassing performance of the Indian team in this match, many questions are being raised on the Indian team continuously. Meanwhile, there is a possibility that Rohit Sharma may be removed from the captaincy.
According to the information, there is no threat to Rohit Sharma’s Test captaincy in the recent past. But to save the captaincy, Rohit Sharma will have to perform brilliantly in West Indies as captain. Rohit Sharma will lead the Indian team for the two-Test series in the West Indies. It is believed that after this series, the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) can hold a meeting regarding the new captain for the Indian team.
Rohit will have to play a big innings
According to information, Rohit Sharma will lead the team in the two-Test series against the West Indies in Dominica from July 12, if he himself does not decide to step down from the captaincy. Although Rohit Sharma will have to play a big innings in this series. If Rohit Sharma’s bat does not work in this tournament, then there can be a lot of problems for him. However, if Rohit does not play any big innings in the second Test to be held in Dominica or Port of Spain (July 20 to 24), the BCCI top brass and the national selection committee will be under pressure to take a tough decision.
Will decide after looking at the form
A senior BCCI source said on the condition of anonymity, “These are baseless talks that Rohit will be removed from the captaincy. Yes, whether he will continue for the full two-year WTC (World Test Championship) cycle is a big question as he will be around 38 when the third cycle ends in 2025. That Shiv Sundar Das and his colleagues will have to take a call after two Tests and looking at their batting form. Basically BCCI works very differently from other sports boards. Top officials in the Indian board feel that when criticism reaches its peak, you don’t take decisions.
The source said, “After the West Indies tour, there are no Tests till the end of December when the team travels to South Africa. So the selectors have enough time to deliberate and take a decision. Till then the fifth selector (new chairman) will also join the committee and then a decision can be taken.” Those who follow Indian cricket know that when Virat Kohli gave up the Test captaincy after the series loss in South Africa Rohit was initially not very keen on becoming captain in the traditional format as he did not know whether his body would cooperate or not. “Two top officials at that time (former president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah) had to be persuaded to take up the role after Lokesh Rahul failed to impress as captain in South Africa. ”
Rohit hasn’t played the kind of innings one would expect from a player of his calibre, except for a brilliant 120 against Australia on a challenging wicket in Nagpur. Since Rohit took over the Test captaincy in 2022, India played 10 Tests out of which he did not play in three. He scored 390 runs in seven Tests during this period and had an average of . He scored a century during this period but apart from this no other score was above 50 runs. During this, Virat Kohli played all 10 Tests. He scored 517 runs in 17 innings with his best score being 186 against Australia at Ahmedabad. Cheteshwar Pujara scored 482 runs in 14 innings of eight Tests during this period, which also included two unbeaten innings. He averaged 40.12 but scored two innings of 90 and 102 against a weak Bangladesh team.
