Former Indian National Cricket Team opening batsman Akash Chopra It exposed the Test captain’s disastrous record Rohit Sharma Since holding the highest position in Indian cricket.
Aakash Chopra has said that Rohit Sharma’s current form in Test cricket is a major concern for the Indian team and shared his poor stats as a batter.
Rohit Sharma is going through a lean patch
Indian National Cricket Team captain Rohit Sharma has been absolutely terrible with the bat in the last four test matches against Bangladesh and New Zealand at home.
He looked all sorts of trouble against the spinners as well as the pacers and his poor performance with the bat even gave Team India a shocking test. series A home loss against the Black Caps.
In the two Test matches against Bangladesh in Chennai and Kanpur, Rohit Sharma scored 6, 5, 23 and 8. Rohit Sharma’s poor form continued as the move shifted to Bengaluru and Pune for the matches against New Zealand. 2, 52, 0 and 8 points.
The Indian skipper needs to ensure he fires with the bat in the Wankhede Test against New Zealand starting on November 1 as India will need a few runs under his belt as they travel to Australia for the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
An average of 35 as captain in 20 matches doesn’t suit me personally – Rohit Sharma
Speaking on his official YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra highlighted Rohit Sharma’s failure to score in the last 8 Test innings.
He went on to dig up the batting records of Indian captains leading the team in at least 20 Tests. Aakash Chopra noted that Rohit’s average as Test captain is 35, which is one of the worst in the history of cricket. He elaborated:
“In the last two Test series so far, he has scored only one fifty in the same eight innings as Virat Kohli. So there will obviously be questions. But if we talk about the Test captains who have captained India, what will his numbers be? at least 20 in the last 50 years match?
“Virat Kohli tops the list with an average of 54 in 68 matches. Sachin Tendulkar averages 51 in 25 matches, Sunil Gavaskar averages 50 in 47 matches, Rahul Dravid He averaged 44 in 25 matches and Mohammad Azharuddin averaged 43 in 47 matches.
“MS Dhoni averaged 40 in 60 matches and Sourav Ganguly averaged 37 in 49 matches. Dada scored only five centuries in 49 matches and Rohit Sharma is below him. He scored 1194 at an average of 35 runs in 20 matches. As a captain average in 20 matches 35, it doesn’t suit me personally.”
So it hurts us a bit because if we see 19 matches at home since 2020, Rohit has a bit of an average – Aakash Chopra
Aakash Chopra then spoke about the Indian batsmen’s record at home in Test cricket. He said Rohit Sharma’s ‘bad’ average of 36.9 hurt him a lot. The cricketer-turned-commentator elaborated:
“I have also seen the stats of Indian batsmen at home since 2020. Rohit Sharma has scored 1,181 runs but average is 36.9. Shubman Gill has an average of 41 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh pants only two shining stars. Jaiswal scored 1056 runs in nine matches at an average of 66 runs.
“Rishabh Pant has scored 753 runs at an average of 50. Apart from both of them, Rohit has 36 and Virat Kohli has 32. So it hurts us a bit because Rohit has an average of 19 matches. From 2020 home since. Not good enough, actually.”
