India’s ODI and Test captain Rohit Sharma is unlikely to play T20 Internationals anymore and had mentioned his future within the shortest format earlier than the beginning of the 50-over World Cup, in response to sources within the BCCI. Rohit hasn’t performed a single sport within the shortest format since India’s T20 World Cup semi-final exit in November 2022. Hardik Pandya has principally led the Indian group in T20Is since then. The 36-year-old India skipper has performed 148 T20Is scoring 3853 runs at a strike-rate of practically 140 with 4 tons of. “It is not a new development. Rohit hasn’t played any T20Is in past one year as the focus was on ODI World Cup. He had extensive discussions with chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar in this regard. He has himself volunteered to stay away from T20Is. It has completely been Rohit’s call,” a senior BCCI supply instructed PTI on situations of anonymity.

After Rohit, India have 4 openers — Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ishan Kishan and Ruturaj Gaikwad — and all of them are confirmed IPL performers. If the youthful crop doesn’t carry out, the selectors or the BCCI brass would possibly simply ask Rohit to rethink his present stand.

It is comprehensible that at this stage of his profession, Rohit want to handle his workload and make sure that he stays principally harm free for the rest of his profession.

It will likely be not possible to play three codecs and IPL every year and with seven Test to be performed between December 2023 to March 2024, the Indian skipper’s focus will likely be totally on red-ball cricket.

He nonetheless has a sensible probability of main India to a different World Test Championship (WTC) last in 2025 and his personal type in conventional format has been excellent since he began opening for India in 2019.

Bumrah, Shami to be rotated throughout England Tests

If all goes nicely, India’s tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah will spearhead the assault in two-Test sequence in South Africa with Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.

However with 5 Tests in 5 weeks in opposition to England scheduled early subsequent yr, the tempo trio will likely be rotated through the sequence.

After his lengthy injury-forced break from aggressive cricket because of decrease again stress fracture, there have been query marks over Bumrah’s capacity to play crimson ball cricket however these within the know of issues mentioned that the Gujarat man is prepared for his comeback “Bumrah is fighting fit and results were there for everyone to see. He is back at his peak fitness and is itching to play the Test matches. With Bumrah and Shami, you need to use them based on what is the priority format at a given time. Bumrah will certainly play T20 World Cup if all goes well,” the BCCI supply added.