The BCCI on Wednesday has named Rohit Sharma as the captain of India’s ODI team. However, he has been named the captain of the T20 team before as well and recently led the team against New Zealand at home also. And,  former India coach Ravi Shastri, who has worked with Virat Kohli, has opened up on the split captaincy and how it affects the team.

Notably, Shastri’s tenure has ended with the T20 World Cup in the UAE this year and he has shared his views on Rohit Sharma taking charge of India’s limited-overs captaincy. However, with this, Virat Kohli’s five-year term as limited-overs captain has ended too. He took over the reins of the Tests in late 2015 after MS Dhoni retired and in the limited-over in 2017 as well.

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“Rohit is not overawed; he always does what is best for the team. He marshalls all the resources of the team unlike, let’s say, in football,” Shastri told The Week in an interview.

Ravi Shastri, meanwhile,  also shared his tenure as the head coach of Team India, sharing how he has seen both Virat Kohli and Rohit has evolved with time and become two of the world’s best players across formats as well. Notably, Ravi Shastri had first joined the team in 2014 as the director, before taking up the role of head coach in 2017.

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“We are two people with a similar mindset. We have a similar wavelength. In 2014, when I first came in, there was only one big player – MS Dhoni. Who else was there? Who was superstar material? Virat, and maybe Rohit Sharma, in white-ball cricket. To see these two guys come through and become great players in red- and white-ball cricket, to have a great fast-bowling attack, to beat Australia in their backyard – there have been so many firsts with this team. It is overwhelming,” concluded Ravi Shastri.