Team India has recently won the Champions Trophy under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy. Now the Indian team will field in June. His tour of England is scheduled, where he will play 5 Test matches. But the biggest question is whether Rohit Sharma will be a part of Team India on this tour and if you play, will captain or not? All these questions are arising because under their captaincy, the Indian team had to face a crushing defeat in Australia tour. During this tour, it was also reported that Rohit could retire from the Test. However, in the conversation, he dismissed the news of retirement. Now a big update has also surfaced on his captaincy.
Big update on Rohit Sharma’s captaincy
Rohit Sharma’s career has taken a big turn after winning the Champions Trophy. According to media reports, Rohit Sharma has got the support of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and his selection panel to captain the team on another big tour. This means that there is every possibility that Rohit Sharma will remain captain on England tour. It is believed that winning the Champions Trophy can make Rohit’s Test career longer.
Questions were raised about the captaincy during the Australia tour.
Team India lost 3–1 in Australia tour of 2024-25. During this time, Rohit decided not to play in the last match of the series due to his poor performance. As soon as Rohit Sharma took a break, rumors started spreading among fans that he would retire from Test cricket after the end of this series. At the same time, some veterans also believed that Rohit should leave the Test format. But Rohit has given a big statement responding to his critics.
Rohit played innings of 3, 6, 10, 2 and 9 in 3 matches of this series.
Speaking on the second day of the Sydney Test, Rohit Sharma said, “Right now runs are not coming, but there is no guarantee that he will not come even after 5 months.” I will work hard. But this decision is not about retirement. People sitting outside carrying laptops, pen and paper do not decide when retirement will happen and what decisions I will have to take.
Rohit played innings of 3, 6, 10, 2 and 9 in 3 matches of this series. This means that the Indian captain scored a total of 31 runs in 5 innings at an average of 6.20. After which it was being claimed that the BCCI could land with the new captain for the England series. But at the moment it does not seem to be happening.
