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Rohit Sharma There is no immediate threat to Rohit Sharma’s Test captaincy but the star batsman from Mumbai will have to perform brilliantly in the West Indies if he is to prevent questions being raised over his leadership abilities in the traditional format. Will lead the Indian team and probably after that sit with the Indian Cricket Board BCCI (BCCI) to discuss his future in the traditional format.

If people in the know of the matter are to be believed in the Indian team, Rohit will lead the team if he does not himself decide to step down from the captaincy in the two-Test series against the West Indies in Dominica from July 12. If no one plays a big innings in the second Test in Spain (July 20 to 24), the BCCI top brass and the national selection committee will be under pressure to take a tough decision.

A senior BCCI source told PTI on condition of anonymity, “These are baseless talks that Rohit will be removed from the captaincy. Yes, whether he will continue for the full two-year WTC (World Test Championship) cycle is a big question as he will be around 38 when the third cycle ends in 2025. That Shiv Sundar Das and his colleagues will have to take a call after two Tests and looking at their batting form.”

Basically BCCI works very differently from other sports boards. Top officials in the Indian board feel that when criticism reaches its peak, you don’t take decisions. “After the West Indies tour, there are no Tests till the end of December when the team travels to South Africa. So the selectors have enough time to deliberate and take a decision. By then the fifth selector (new chairman) will also join the committee and then a decision can be taken.

Those who follow Indian cricket know that when Virat Kohli gave up the Test captaincy after the series loss in South Africa, Rohit was initially not very keen on becoming the captain in the traditional format as he did not know that his body The source said, “After Lokesh Rahul failed to impress the two top officials at that time (former president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah) as captain in South Africa, he was asked to take up this role. Had to agree.

Rohit has not played the kind of innings expected of a player of his caliber except for a brilliant 120 against Australia on a challenging wicket in Nagpur. India have played 10 Tests since Rohit took over the Test captaincy in 2022. Out of which he did not play in three. He scored 390 runs in seven Tests during this period and had an average of . He scored a century during this period but apart from this no other score was above 50 runs.

During this, Virat Kohli played all 10 Tests. He scored 517 runs in 17 innings with a best score of 186 against Australia in Ahmedabad. Cheteshwar Pujara scored 482 runs in 14 innings in eight Tests during this period, including two unbeaten innings. He averaged 40.12 but scored two innings of 90 and 102 against a weak Bangladesh team.(Language)