Rohit Sharma Retire from T20 Cricket

Rohit Sharma’s T20I career has come to an end, with selectors likely to take over his ODI captaincy after India’s loss to Australia in the ICC World Cup 2023 final. According to the Times of India, the Board of Control for Cricket in India wants to be clear about Rohit’s white-ball future, as well as groom a new captain.

Rohit Sharma played his last T20I match was the semi-final against England in the ICC T20 World Cup 2022. With selectors keen to pick in youngsters, it remains to be seen how the 36-year-old fares in terms of ODIs. The next edition of the Champions Trophy is 2025, and Rohit might not even play in it. The Men in Blue’s next ODI assignment is in South Africa.

Some report says that “Ahead of the ICC World Cup 2023, Rohit had told the Indian selection committee that he was fine with the idea of ​​not being considered for the T20Is. The selectors want to continue with the young players,”.
Rohit will focus on Test cricket for the next World Test Championship. Grooming a captain for the five-day format is a part of the agenda.

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The five-match T20 series between India vs Australia will begin from November 23. From here, another strategy of Team India for the T20 World Cup will begin. According to reports, BCCI will announce the Indian squad for the T20 series against Aussies today. It is said that some star players including Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Jasprit Bumrah have been rested from this series.

This is a new look Team India, with more young players, India will face Australia in the T20 series. So many players have a chance to prove themselves. This is an important series in that respect. Since Hardik Pandya is not in this series, the question of who will be the captain has also been raised. According to sources, either Suryakumar Yadav or Ruturaj Gaikwad will be given the captaincy.

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Also, Rinku Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ryan Paragan are likely to get seats. The first T20 match between India and Australia will be played in Visakhapatnam on November 23. The rest of the matches respectively, Thiruvananthapuram on 26th, Guwahati on 28th, Nagpur on 1st and Hyderabad on 3rd December.

India squad: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Vice-captain), Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (Wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.