Delhi: Rohit Sharma’s sudden, and that too, the decision to retire a few days before the England tour is not as straightforward and clear as it is being tried to make it. If Rohit Sharma was not to go to England, then the right time to retire was after losing the Test series in Australia. Then everyone was behind them. From his farm, his fitness was also being questioned. They withstand that criticism and after that the limited over cricket changed the atmosphere. That is why it was generally believed that Team India in England would play Test series under his captaincy. So what happened exactly?
Rohit Sharma’s Test Career
The indication is that Rohit Sharma, who has played 67 Tests (4301 with 12 centuries at an average of 40.57 and 18 half -centuries) Rohit Sharma was indicated by the Selection Committee of Ajit Agarkar that he would not make him captain for the next England tour. When there was no captain, there was a question in his place in the tour team. In recent months red ball cricket, he did not have such a form that he should say a place in 15 players. So just after these indications Rohit Sharma was not ready to give him a chance to decide not to choose in the tour team as well.
Why did not get a chance of a stretched test?
The selectors of India have never been famous for showing transparency on the decision to get any player out of the team at least (just Sachin Tendulkar is the exception). They themselves do not tell the biggest player themselves from the captaincy or even after removing him from the team and leaves this work on the news in the media. Therefore, it is useless to question the expectation of Ajit Agarkar’s team that he could give a signal to Rohit before or would give his retirement a chance to plan. Such a big player and captain too and still did not give Rohit Sharma a chance to say goodbye to cricket in front of his fans in the stadium.
How the selectors made a plan without Rohit
Now the issue is that how did the selectors make up their mind for England Tour
Will you not make Rohit the Test captain of India? If not the Test captain, he will not choose in the tour team as a player. So far there have been no such indications that Ajit Agarkar himself talked to Rohit Sharma or just gave him a hint and gave him the opportunity to decide the selectors, before this, decide himself. It would always seem that they could play more Tests, even making a special record of reaching 100 Tests. However, the selectors did not give the record of white ball cricket, the decisions of the red ball cricket, and if there was a country, he would have taken a decision long ago and would have groom the new captain. Here, the situation was made that Rohit Sharma put the responsibility of deciding himself about himself at this point of career. Well, like Rohit did not do it in T20 International, in the Test.
Rohit missing from England series
How did Rohit Sharma know that he was not making him a captain? It is clear that the selectors decided but before making any formal announcement, they leaked the news to one of their ‘favorite’ media staff. All the work was done with this. A sensational story came in the media and Rohit Sharma got the news to decide to save his honor. If Ajit Agarkar’s committee would have told Rohit Sharma on the basis of recent form, then the honor for the committee would have increased, but now that there are only a few days left for the tour team to leave, where did the new captain give time to make his strategy? England tour is not a joke and if Shubman makes Gill the captain (as is being indicated), then it is indeed unfair to the new captain like him that he has captained the 5 Test series in England in this way.
New Strategy for England Tour
The truth is that Rohit Sharma started making strategy for England Tour. Recently, he spoke about starting an attack on Australian Michael Clarke’s podcast ‘Beyond 23’ with Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Shami and Mohammad Siraj in England. What did he know that Ajit Agarkar’s selection committee is cooking some more khichdi inside. It is not wrong to think that in view of Rohit Sharma’s red ball form, for the new round of the World Test Championship (which starts with this series in England), hand over the reins to a new and young captain, but chose the wrong time for him.
Rohit continued to struggle with the bat
In the last Australia Tour of India, Rohit Sharma struggled with the bat, the average in 5 innings was just 6.20 and it came that he himself was out of the Test team. Earlier, last year, against New Zealand, in the Test series in India, scored just 15.16 in the 3 Tests. So a batsman in the team was constantly ‘less’ and even lost every advantage in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy despite winning the first Test under Bumrah’s captaincy.
Well, those who know about the method of work of the board and selection committee in India, they are not surprised. Thank you that with the news leaked in the media, Rohit Sharma gave Rohit Sharma a chance to retire with the honor that he himself retired, no one took him out of the team.
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