IND vs AUS: crew india captain rohit sharma who retired from t20 internationals after prevailing the t20 international Cup 2024 has reportedly 'made up his mind' to call it time from take a look at cricket as nicely and is in all likelihood to make the announcement after final check of the 2024-25 Border Gavaskar Trophy in Sydney.
As consistent with a report from instances of india (TOI), there are murmurs inside the Board of manipulate for cricket (BCCI) among top officials and selectors approximately Rohit Sharma's area within the check squad.
The report suggests that if india qualify for the wtc final, the skipper will try to convince the board individuals and selectors to permit him play inside the final however if india fail to win the Sydney take a look at, he will name it time from take a look at cricket. The record came right after india lost the melbourne check towards australia by means of a huge margin of 184 runs inside the ongoing Border Gavaskar-Trophy. The loss adds to the tally of losses underneath Rohit's captaincy in six tests (5 losses and a draw) which makes his case worse in the interim.
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recently, india had been whitewashed at home via new zealand for the first time in united states's take a look at history. The draw at Gabba got here while rain helped india as they have been in a dropping role in the game and the best win in BGT 2024-25 has come at Perth below the leadership of vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah.
melbourne witnessed what might be considered the heaviest defeat of the series for the Mumbaikar. The pitch was the flattest seen yet, yet india managed to restrict australia to chaseable targets. however, regardless of having their longest batting lineup, which included three all-rounders, india could simplest rely upon gamers to attain double figures whilst chasing 340 within the final innings on Monday.
This loss manner that for india to qualify for the sector take a look at championship (WTC) final, they must win the Sydney take a look at and desire that australia fails to win any of the imminent three assessments in Sri Lanka. however, australia most effective desires to win this sort of assessments to comfy their spot in the very last.
The series has also been tough for Rohit Sharma. He controlled simplest 9 runs off forty balls on Monday, leaving him without a rating above 10 in the 3 exams he has performed. In 5 innings, he has accumulated just 31 runs-best one more than Bumrah's general wickets (30) within the collection.