Legendary Indian National Cricket Team all-rounder Kapil Dev supported the skipper Rohit Sharma to come out of a lean patch and win matches for the team once again with his spectacular performances.
Kapil Dev also sent a reminder to Rohit Sharma’s critics, saying that the Indian captain won the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 just a few months ago.
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Rohit Sharma’s poor form is a major concern
Rohit lost four back-to-back matches as India’s Test captain. Under his leadership, the team suffered an utterly humiliating 0-3 thrashing at home against New Zealand, which was the lowest point in Indian cricket history.
Rohit then dropped the next game AustraliaPlayed in Perth , and jasprit bumrah He led India to an epic victory by 295 runs.
However, after Rohit returned to captain the team, India suffered an embarrassing 10-wicket loss against the Australians in Adelaide as the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 was tied 1-1.
Captaincy is not the only concern for Rohit Sharma as his personal form with the bat has been terrible. In the last 6 test matches, he has failed to perform and his performances have directly affected India.
In the test series He scored 6, 5, 23 and 8 against Bangladesh and then followed it up with 2, 52, 0, 8, 18 and 11 in the New Zealand series. Also, in the Adelaide Test, he scored 3 and 6 runs in two innings.
He doesn’t have to prove himself – Kapil Dev
Meanwhile, World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev slammed Rohit Sharma’s critics and said the latter doesn’t have to prove himself because he has done it over the years.
Kapil added that he will never doubt captain Rohit Sharma’s credentials as he has been highly successful and has backed him to make a strong comeback.
“He doesn’t have to prove himself. He’s done it for many years, so let’s not doubt anyone. I won’t doubt him. I hope his form comes back, that’s important,” Kapil said during his speech. Vishwa Samudra Open, a PGTI event to begin on Tuesday at the Delhi Golf Club.
“With one or two performances, if you’re questioning somebody’s captaincy, I mean you wouldn’t have asked me that question just six months ago when he won the T20 World Cup. Knowing his ability and talent, you wouldn’t have asked that question. They’ll be back.”
I think it’s too early to talk about this – Kapil Dev on Jasprit Bumrah as captain
Kapil Dev also dismissed the idea that Jasprit Bumrah is all set to take over the captaincy from Rohit Sharma. He said that such a decision cannot be taken after Rohit’s several failures. Kapil Dev said:
“I think it’s too early to talk about it. You can’t say he’s the best with one performance, and he doesn’t deserve it with one bad performance.
“Let a player play a lot of cricket, take a lot of captaincy. He will have ups and downs, and then you judge a man by his reaction in bad times, not in good times. We don’t do that in good times. He has to judge after he is down…”
