Rohit Sharma, India’s across-all-formats cricket skipper, never shied away from accepting responsibility that is what defines his leadership style ever since March 2022. Being the all-format captain of India, he always found himself in the news, either for achievements or for failure. However, while Rohit Sharma, the skipper for both white-ball cricket, results had been mixed bag, a sense of questioning his white-ball performance and influence in test cricket have become more recurrent post India’s successive losses.
Another element fuelling speculations has been the early retirement of Ravichandran Ashwin, who quit international cricket after Brisbane Test. His sudden retirement seems to have sent Indian cricket fraternity into a tailspin on the future for veterans such as Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Rohit Sharma Struggles With Test India’s Test cricketing performances under Rohit Sharma have been far from impressive.
Of their last five games, India has lost four and three of those were at home to New Zealand. Rohit has been no better with his bat, scoring just one half-century in his last 13 innings. His last contribution of note was back in October against New Zealand in Bengaluru.
Since then, the dip has been massive. After the Gabba Test, Rohit candidly accepted he hadn’t batted well. “I haven’t batted well and no one can deny that,” he admitted.
“But I know how I am preparing myself. All those boxes are ticked. It’s about spending as much time as pos.
