Rahul Tiwari
khelja|24-01-2025
About 6 months ago, hardly anyone would have thought that the coming time will prove to be the hard work for Rohit Sharma to save his career. Rohit, one of the most successful batsmen of Team India, is currently struggling with this crisis, where he is seen continuously beating. Rohit, who landed in the Ranji Trophy to overcome the recent failure in Test cricket, also felt disappointed here. After this one failure, now Rohit has barely 5-6 opportunities, after which it will be difficult to answer.
Captain Rohit, including many batsmen in the Test series against New Zealand and Australia, also failed badly. On the tour of Australia, he could score only 31 runs in 5 innings. In such a situation, questions are being raised on his place in Test cricket. Rohit may have said that his career is not over yet but the situation is not in his favor at the moment. He played the Ranji Trophy match after about 10 years to bow these conditions towards him, but the first attempt could not be made.
Rohit was dismissed for just 3 runs after facing 19 balls in the Mumbai and Jammu and Kashmir match which started on Thursday 23 January at BKC ground in Mumbai. Just as he was caught in the circle due to playing a bridge shot in Australia properly, Rohit lost the wicket here in the same way. In Melbourne, he was in front of him as a legendary bowler like Pat Cummins, but here there was an unknown pace named Omar Nazir, which has now become famous overnight.
Seeing the latest situation, it is difficult to believe that about 10-11 months ago, this batsman scored 2 centuries in the Test series against England. Then along with a strong captaincy in the T20 World Cup, he made the team world champion with explosive batting. Then when the rest of the batsmen surrendered in the ODI series on the tour of Sri Lanka in July, Rohit was scoring runs. But in the last 6 months, he has failed on every front.
After failing in the first innings of the Ranji Trophy match, now Rohit has more than 6 opportunities, where he will have to get his rhythm. At present, he has the second innings of this match, in which his batting is currently looking fixed. After this, there is another Ranji match from 30 January. If Rohit plays them too, then you can get batting in 2 innings. After this, he also has 3 ODIs against England. If Rohit achieves some rhythm by scoring big in these 6 innings, then he and the team can get relief before the Champions Trophy. If this does not happen, the Champions Trophy may be his last tournament with Team India.