IND and OFF: Captain Rohit Sharma joins the Indian team after their massive 295-run win in the Perth Test ahead of a day-night Test in Adelaide on December 6 race. On the first day of this match, it was thought that India’s batting would be strengthened with the addition of captain Rohit Sharma, but the opposite happened. On day one, not only captain Rohit Sharma’s batting failed, but India’s entire batting failed miserably in the face of Australia’s lethal bowling. Nitish Reddy is the only batsman to score more than 40 runs. Mitchell Starc took 6 wickets in the first innings to restrict India to 180 runs.
Rohit sets record of shame
In response to India’s first innings score, Australia got off to a good start, with hundreds from Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head taking the hosts to 337 runs. After the failure in the first innings, everyone was expecting to see better results when India got a chance to bat in the second innings, but once again the Australian bowlers did not give the Indian batsmen a chance to play freely. India lost 4 wickets in 86 runs. Thereafter, captain Rohit Sharma took on the responsibility of leading the Indian innings but was unable to do anything special. Like the first game, Rohit failed this time too. He scored just 6 runs with the bat in the second innings. In this way, the Indian captain set a very shameful record of getting out in single digits in both innings.
A shameful record set 16 years later
In fact, Rohit Sharma has become the third Indian captain to be dismissed in single digits in both innings of a Test match on Australian soil. 16 years later, an Indian captain was dismissed at single digits in both Test match innings. Earlier in 2008, Anil Kumble was missing another duck in the Perth Test. Meanwhile, in the 1948 Test match in Melbourne, Lala Amarnath scored only 0 and 8 runs in two innings.
India captain dismissed in single digits in both Test innings in Australia
- 0, 8 – Lala Amarnath, Melbourne (1948)
- 1, 0 – Anil Kumble, Perth (2008)
- 3. 6 – Rohit Sharma, Adelaide (2024)*
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