Rohit Sharma
Luck is not always bad, sometimes decisions are also wrong. This may be fitting Rohit Sharma today, but when Team India defeated South Africa and won the T20 World Cup title in June 2024, his luck was also on his side and his bold decisions were also proving to be correct. This is the reason why Rohit Sharma’s decision to give the last over to Hardik Pandya in the final is still cited as an example. But luck and mood of Indian cricket fans are not always the same. The captain who made Team India world champion is forced to face criticism from all sides in less than 6 months. The captain, in whose praise till a few months ago was being praised, the calls for not only removing the hitman from the captaincy have become louder but also there is advocating for his removal from the team because neither the decisions of the Indian captain are proving to be correct. Nor are any runs coming from his bat.
When Team India entered Australia, Rohit Sharma was not with the team. Due to becoming a father, he joined Team India late. By then Team India had won the Perth Test by a huge margin. After this, it seemed that Team India would be successful in repeating the success of Perth in the day-night test match in Adelaide but the opposite happened. Australia made a brilliant comeback in the second test and defeated Rohit-led team India by 10 wickets. Neither Rohit’s captaincy nor his bat worked in this match. After the flop in Adelaide, a big innings was expected from Rohit in Gabba but once again the bat betrayed him and he returned to the pavilion after scoring just 10 runs. And then big questions started arising. That is, for how long will Rohit’s batting be covered up and for how long will confidence be expressed in his captaincy.
Rohit Sharma
After winning the T20 World Cup, everyone felt that the next big target of Team India captain Rohit Sharma would be to win the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 to be played in 2025, but the time took such a turn that the title was lost for Team India. Forget about winning, they were left in trouble of reaching the WTC final after facing a clean sweep in the home series against New Zealand. Till last year, Rohit Sharma’s bat was scoring runs in the World Test Championship. Even cricket experts were not tired of praising his captaincy. In the year 2023, he was the second highest run scorer in Tests after Virat Kohli. He scored 540 runs in 7 test matches at an average of around 50. During this period he scored 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries. It is not that Rohit’s troubles started from this year itself. Since the end of last year, his bat started becoming quiet and the sharpness of his captaincy also started decreasing.
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Weak captaincy exposed against New Zealand
Team India, which went on the South Africa tour in the last month of last year, was successful in leveling the 2-match series 1-1, but captain Rohit’s bat yearned for a half-century. After this, in the new year, Rohit scored 2 centuries in the 5-match Test series against England but did not appear to be completely in rhythm. Meanwhile, with the historic victory of the T20 World Cup, the legendary Rahul Dravid departed and the captain got the support of the flamboyant Gautam Gambhir. Under Gambhir’s coaching, Rohit’s captaincy appeared aggressive but its glimpse was visible only against a weak team like Bangladesh. The real trouble for Rohit this year started when Team India made the big mistake of taking New Zealand lightly at home. The New Zealand team seemed to dominate Team India from the very first test match, as a result of which the host India had to face its second big defeat of the year. Earlier, Team India had started the year 2024 with a defeat against England but then made a comeback and captured the series by winning 4 consecutive Tests.
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Biggest defeat under Rohit’s captaincy
Rohint and company had not yet been able to digest the first defeat from New Zealand that the Kiwi team, without the legendary batsman like Kane Williamson, showed the stars to the Indian team during the day and created a new history of winning the Test series on Indian soil for the first time. Gave. In the first 2 matches of this series, it did not seem that the same team India was playing against New Zealand, which no other team has the courage to defeat at its own home. Even after losing 2 consecutive Tests, Rohit did not learn any lesson, the result of which was that for the first time, Team India was defeated by a team in a series of 3 or more matches. One thing became clear from this crushing defeat that there was a weak link in Rohit Sharma’s captaincy right from the beginning, which finally got exposed in front of New Zealand. This defeat dealt the biggest blow to Team India’s hopes of reaching the final of the World Test Championship, which were considered almost certain before this series.
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Rohit Sharma’s career is on the decline
After winning the T20 World Cup title, Rohit Sharma’s team and his captaincy reached the lowest level within 6 months. The fans’ praise had now turned into criticism. Questions started being raised on Rohit Sharma’s captaincy from all sides, to which he had only one way to answer, that he went to Australia and proved himself, but till now this does not seem to be happening and Team India won only 1 match out of 3 matches and reached the WTC. Looks to be out of the race for the title match. Rohit Sharma is 37 years old and has already said goodbye to the shortest format of cricket, but to save his place in Test and ODI, he will first have to improve his performance, otherwise he is more likely to end up like Sourav Ganguly. It would not take long for those who were dismissed from the team as soon as their captaincy left.
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