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BCCI Considering To Make Rohit Sharma As India’s Next Test Captain
By CricShots - Jan 24, 2022 6:32 pm
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Virat Kohli announced his resignation as the Indian Test against earlier this month after losing a three-match Test series in South Africa. Meanwhile, there was confusion regarding who would lead India in Test cricket. Well, Rohit Sharma seems to be an obvious choice but some of the pundits have come up with certain names who would take India in the right direction as far as the Test cricket is concerned.

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Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma has been nursing his hamstring injury for quite some time now and because of that, he missed the Test and ODI series in South Africa. Some pundits are preferring Rishabh Pant as the next Test captain as the wicket-keeper has the ability to read the game well from behind the stumps. Meanwhile, all those speculations were put to rest by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

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The BCCI is expected to name Rohit Sharma as the new Test captain and the official announcement will be expected to happen ahead of the home series against West Indies. It seems that the BCCI is completely happy with the progress Rohit Sharma is showing in terms of his fitness.

As a result, the board has decided to name Rohit Sharma as the new Test captain. He will be looking forward to leading India across formats soon.  India hasn’t performed well in the absence of Rohit Sharma as the loss of both the ODI Test Test in South Africa.

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KL Rahul And Rohit Sharma

As per reports in Inside sport, one of the senior BCCI officials said, “Without any doubt, Rohit Sharma will be the new test captain of India. Rohit was named vice-captain before the South Africa series & will now be elevated as captain of the team. The announcement will be made soon.”

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Meanwhile, the BCCI official further told InsideSport that selectors will have a word with Rohit Sharma on his workload and fitness-related problems. In fact, Rohit Sharma has already been working hard on his fitness in recent times. He was spotted training with Sanju Samson and Ravindra Jadeja.

Elaborating the same, an anonymous BCCI official said, “The workload will be immense. He needs to keep himself very agile and fit. I think the selectors will have a word with him. He will have to work to extra-bit on his fitness.”