Team India's poor performance continues in Test cricket. After losing to New Zealand, Team India has lagged behind in the series even on the Australia tour. The biggest brunt of such poor condition of the team is falling on captain Rohit Sharma, who is not only under question due to his bad decisions, but is also under attack due to his poor batting. His bat has failed miserably for the third consecutive series and now he is being advised to retire or be dropped from the team. Rohit has not announced anything like this but the question is whether he will drop himself from the team for the Sydney Test?
The Australia series has not been good at all for Rohit and he has been able to score only 31 runs in 5 innings. In the second innings of the Melbourne Test, when Team India was chasing the target of 340 runs, Rohit returned to the pavilion after scoring only 9 runs. He could score only 3 runs in the first innings. In such a situation, there is a demand to drop him from the Sydney Test. Whether Rohit will do this or not will be known on January 3, but there have definitely been some captains who had dropped themselves for the sake of the team.
Sri Lanka's experienced wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal was the captain of the team in the 2014 T20 World Cup. But his bat was not working in the tournament and he was continuously failing. In such a situation, he dropped himself from the team before the semi-finals. Lasith Malinga took command in his place and Sri Lanka proved his decision right by winning the World Cup.
Misbah-ul-Haq, one of the best captains of Pakistan, had also dropped himself once. This incident happened in 2014 when the Pakistani team was on Australia tour for the ODI series. Pakistan had a bad defeat in the first two matches of the series and Misbah himself could score only 0, 15. In such a situation, he dropped himself in the third ODI. However, even after this the Pakistani team had to face defeat.
Former England captain Mike Dennis had taken such a decision in the middle of the Test series. In the Ashes series on Australia tour in 1974, the team lost 2 consecutive tests and the third was a draw. Dennis' performance in all three tests was very poor. In such a situation, for the welfare of the team, he dropped himself from the fourth test. Although England still lost, they had set an example. He returned for the fifth and sixth Tests and England was successful in winning at least one match.
Veteran captain Eoin Morgan, who made England win the ODI World Cup for the first time in 2019, is also included in this list. Although Morgan did not drop himself, before the 2021 T20 World Cup, he had definitely said that if his form did not improve, he would drop himself. Although he played the World Cup. Even after this, when Morgan's performance did not improve, he himself announced his retirement before the T20 World Cup 2022 and separated from the team. England won the T20 World Cup title the same year.
