Rohit announced his retirement of test cricket after 11 years, on average 4,301 runs with 12 centuries and 18 fifties, for the ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 cycle of India.
Former India chief coach Ravi Shastri expressed his conviction that he would have guaranteed that Rohit Sharma, who recently announced his retirement of test cricket, took the field for the last border-gavaskar trophy test against Australia in Sydney earlier this year. Last week Rohit closed his test career with an impressive count of 4,301 runs in 67 games, with an average of 40.57, which includes 12 centuries and a personal best score of 212.
As the test captain of India from 2022, Rohit led the team in 24 games, won the victory in 12 of them and led the team to second place in the 2023 World Test Championship (WTC) final. However, a challenging form of form since September of the previous year placed Rohit’s test career in a precarious position. During the home series against Bangladesh and New Zealand, he managed to exceed the 50-run marking only once, on average only 10.93.
After missing the first test in Perth as a result of the birth of his son, Rohit returned to participate in the subsequent three tests, but struggled considerably and only collected 31 runs. This disappointing performance eventually led to the 38-year-old set aside in January for the last Border-Gavaskar Trophy test on the Sydney Cricket Ground.
“I saw Rohit a lot at the Worp (during an IPL match). At the Worp you don’t get enough time to speak. Although I put my hand on his shoulder in one of the matches. I think it was in Mumbai, and I told him if I was the coach, you would never have played that last test matte.
“You would have played that last test match because the series was not over. And I am not someone who threw the towel in the towel with the score 2-1. If your mentality is you feeling that you are … That is not the stage, you leave a team,” Shastri said on the ICC review show.
Shastri also explained why Rohit should have participated in the test competition in Sydney, where the series was bound 2-1 at that time.
“That was a run game of 30-40. And that is exactly what I told him. The field was so spicy in Sydney. In what form he was in what form he was, he is a match winner.
“If he was gone, felt the situation, the condition felt and even 35-40 had beaten at the top, you never know. That series would have been the same. But that is each for him. Other people have different styles. This would have been my style and I told him.
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