After flopping in three consecutive Test matches in Australia, Rohit Sharma finally got a big side-effect. Rohit Sharma is out of Sydney Test. Team India did not give him a place in the playing eleven. Shubman Gill has got a chance in the playing eleven in place of Rohit Sharma. Jasprit Bumrah has taken command of the team in Sydney in place of Rohit Sharma. It was under his captaincy that India won the first test in Perth. After this, Rohit captained the next three Tests and Team India lost 2 Tests and one match was drawn.
After fifty years in Indian cricket, it has been seen that the captain himself has been dropped from the playing eleven. In 1975, off-spinner Venkataraghavan was also dropped from the second Test after captaining the first Test and he became the twelfth player. Now Rohit Sharma has been dropped from the playing eleven in the middle series. However, there are reports about Rohit that this player has opted out of the Sydney Test on his own will.
Rohit Sharma failed in the last three test matches of Border-Gavaskar Trophy. He could score only 31 runs in 5 innings. However, Rohit has not been dropped from the team just because of this. This player was flopping in the last two test series. Rohit also failed to score runs against New Zealand and Bangladesh. In the last 8 tests he could score only one half-century.
Merely not being able to score runs is not a reason to drop Rohit. This player's footwork, eye-bat coordination seems completely out of touch. Even in Sydney, Rohit Sharma was getting very late in playing the ball during the nets. This is the reason why a big decision was taken to keep him out of the team. However, now the question is whether Rohit's Test career is over? Rohit Sharma is almost 38 years old and now it is almost impossible for him to return to the team. In such a situation, let us assume that Rohit has played the last Test of his career in Melbourne.
