Luck isn’t always bad, and sometimes decisions are wrong. This may suit Rohit Sharma well today, but when India beat South Africa to win the T20 World Cup in June 2024, luck was also on his side and his bold decisions were Proved correct. That’s why Rohit Sharma’s decision to hand the last over to Hardik Pandya in the final over is still cited as an example. But the luck and mood are not always the same for Indian cricket fans. The captain who won the world title for India has been forced to face criticism from all sides in less than six months. The skipper was being praised till a few months ago and now calls are growing for the hitman to be removed from the captaincy and some are advocating that he be removed from the team as none of the Indian captain’s decisions To prove the point accurately, there were no runs off his bat either.
Rohit Sharma was not in the team when India entered Australia. He joined the Indian team late in life due to becoming a father. That was when the Indian team won the Perth Test match by a huge margin. Thereafter, it looked like India would replicate Perth’s success in the Adelaide day-night Test, but the opposite happened. Australia staged a stunning comeback in the second Test, defeating Rohit-led India by 10 wickets. Rohit’s captaincy and bat didn’t work in this match. After the defeat in Adelaide, Rohit was expected to have a big innings at the Gabba, but the bat betrayed him again and he returned to the pavilion after scoring just 10 runs. Then big problems started to arise. That is, until when will Rohit’s batting be covered and until when will he be able to show confidence in his captaincy.
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After winning the T20 World Cup, everyone felt that India captain Rohit Sharma’s next big goal was to win the 2023-25 ​​World Test Championship (WTC) to be held in 2025, but time has taken such a turn, India The team lost the championship, don’t forget to win, and they swept their opponents in the home series against New Zealand and fell into trouble to reach the WTO finals. Until last year, Rohit Sharma’s bat was scoring runs in the World Test Championship. Even cricket pundits go out of their way to praise his captaincy. In 2023, he became 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. Rohit’s troubles didn’t start this year. From the end of last year, his bat started getting quieter and the captain’s sharpness started to decrease.
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Captain’s weaknesses exposed against New Zealand
India, who toured South Africa in the last month of last year, managed to level the two-match series 1-1 but were left hungry for a half-century with the bat of captain Rohit. Thereafter, in the new year, Rohit scored two centuries in five Tests against England but didn’t seem to quite get into rhythm. Meanwhile, with the legendary Rahul Dravid departing following the historic win in the T20 World Cup, the skipper has been backed by the surging Gautam Gambhir. Rohit’s captaincy has shown aggression under Gambhir’s coaching, but that was only seen against a weaker team like Bangladesh. Rohit’s real trouble this year started when India made a huge mistake in slighting New Zealand at home. New Zealand seemed to have the upper hand over India right from the start of the first Test match, only for hosts India to face their second heavy defeat of the year. Earlier, India started 2024 with a loss against England but came back and won 4 consecutive Tests to claim the series title.
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Rohit’s biggest failure as captain
Rosinth and co are yet to digest the first defeat for New Zealand, which, without a legendary batsman like Kane Williamson, showed India the star power during the day and created a New history of winning Test series on Indian soil. first. In the first two games of this series, India and New Zealand didn’t seem to be the same team and no team had the guts to beat New Zealand on their home turf. Even after losing two Test matches in a row, Rohit failed to learn any lesson and the result was that for the first time India was defeated by a team in 3 or more consecutive matches. What was clear from this debacle was that there was a weak link in Rohit Sharma’s captaincy from the very beginning, which was ultimately exposed in front of New Zealand. The defeat dealt the biggest blow to India’s hopes of reaching the World Test Championship final, which had been all but assured before this series.
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Rohit Sharma’s career is on the decline
After claiming the T20 World Cup, both Rohit Sharma’s team and his captain reached their lowest level in 6 months. Fans’ praise has now turned to criticism. Questions started being raised about Rohit Sharma’s captaincy and there was only one way to answer it and that was for him to go to Australia and prove himself but so far, that doesn’t seem to be happening and India have just won 3 games into a match and heading into the WTC looking like they were out of contention for the title. At the age of 37, Rohit Sharma has bid farewell to cricket’s shortest format, but in order to retain his place in Test matches and ODIs, he must first improve his performance, otherwise he is more likely to To end up like Sourav Ganguly. For those who were kicked out of the team as soon as the captain left, it won’t take long.
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