The Indian team has left for Australia tour, where it has to play a 5-Test series under the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. This tour is very important for India after the defeat in the Test series against New Zealand. Special attention will be on Virat Kohli and captain Rohit Sharma, who completely failed against New Zealand. The poor form of both is a cause of concern for Team India and now a truth has come to light, which hardly anyone would have noticed before. The two biggest batsmen of Team India have not been able to make a century partnership even once in Test cricket in the last 7 years.

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have been an important part of Team India for more than a decade and have emerged as the biggest batsmen of Team India in all three formats. Both of them have played many excellent innings in every format and have made many partnerships with different players. In ODI and T20, Rohit and Virat have made many century partnerships together and have won matches for Team India, but when it comes to Test cricket, Indian fans are yearning to see a big partnership between the two.

Could not make big partnership for 7 years

Virat has been a constant part of Team India since his Test debut, whereas despite debuting in 2013, it took a long time for Rohit to secure his place in this format. He has been a regular part of the team since he started opening in 2019 and is now the captain as well. Both these batsmen played many big innings during this period but have not been able to make any big partnership with each other in the last 7 years.

Statistics show that since January 1, 2018, Kohli and Rohit have batted together in 12 innings of 34 Test matches, but during this period they have not been able to make a century partnership even once. Forget about a century partnership, there was only one fifty partnership between the two in these 12 innings and in that too they could only reach 64 runs. The partnership between the two in these 12 innings was - 32, 25, 23, 1, 0, 64, 1, 17, 16, 2, 18, 23.

Will both stars shine in Australia?

However, it is not that both of them never made a century partnership. Before 2018, both of them had made big partnerships thrice to help Team India and make the fans happy. Since Rohit's debut, both of them have batted together a total of 26 times and in this they have added 999 runs at an average of 39, which includes 3 century partnerships and 4 half-century partnerships. Now the Indian team and fans will only hope that both the star batsmen return to their form in Australia and play an important role in winning by making some big partnerships.