In a prominent announcement, the BCCI has named Rohit Sharma as the new ODI captain of the Indian cricket team. He can take over from his forerunner Virat Kohli beginning the three-ODI series against South Africa in January 2022.
“The All-India Senior Selection Committee additionally determined to call Mr Rohit Sharma as the Captain of the ODI & T20I teams going forward,” the BCCI tweeted on Thursday.
The All-India Senior Selection Committee also decided to name Mr Rohit Sharma as the Captain of the ODI & T20I teams going forward.#TeamIndia | @ImRo45 pic.twitter.com/hcg92sPtCa
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 8, 2021
The announcement comes on the day the BCCI declared India’ squad for the 3 test series beginning December 26. many floating reports within the media prompt that the modification in the guard was inevitable before the board determined to finish the suspense with a tweet.
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Rohit, who took over as India’ T20I skipper post the T20 World Cup, led within the recently-concluded 3 T20I series against New Zealand, that the home team well won 3-0. With Kohli already stepping down as India’ T20I captain, it was solely a matter of your time before Rohit took over because of the team’s limited-overs captain. He was additionally promoted as India’ vice-captain in Tests, the deputy to Kohli, absorbing from an out-of-form Ajinkya Rahane.
Rohit has less than a year to arrange for the T20 World Cup in Australia next year, followed by the 50-over World Cup in India in 2023. With the Rohit Sharma-Rahul Dravid partnership taking over, the two forthcoming ICC events promise to be an enormous challenge for Team India, particularly once their poor show within the T20 World Cup, wherever the team didn’t reach the semi-final, the first time it’s happened in an ICC event in eight years.
Rohit has led India in ten ODIs. Out of that, the team won eight. The most considerable accomplishment of Rohit’ ODI captainship came in 2018. Once in Kohli’ absence, India won the Asia Cup in the UAE, beating Bangladesh in the final. The team won all its league matches, excluding an exhilarating tie against Afghanistan.
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Kohli, who took over as India’s regular captain in 2017, once the great MS Dhoni determined to step down, can go down because of the country’ most productive ODI captain with a win proportion of 70.43. He led India in ninety-five games – winning sixty-five and losing 27, and is fourth within the list of most matches as India skipper behind Dhoni, Mohammed Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly.
Under Kohli, India fared well within the two major ICC events the team took part in. In 2017, India reached the ultimate of the ICC Champions Trophy, wherever they lost to Pakistan. 2 years later, India reached the semi-final of the T20 World Cup beneath Kohli, where they finished at the highest of the table when the cluster stage. In one of the foremost complex World Cup formats, Kohli led his team confidently as India won all its group matches, barring one – to England.
Unfortunately, Kohli’s captaincy tenure ends without an ICC trophy, even though he’s second within the list of most runs scored by a captain in ODIs. With 5449 runs from ninety-five matches at a robust average of 72.65 and twenty-one centuries and twenty-seven fifties, Kohli is next to the great former Australia captain Ricky Ponting.
