Can Rohit Sharma Bring Calmness To Team India?

Team India began a new era with Rohit taking over as fulltime ODI captain during the home series against West Indies. He had already been named leader...

- Renin Wilben

Indian cricket has been going through a very rough phase of late. They had a horror T20 World Cup 2021 campaign in which they failed to go past the Super 12 round. The next few months were more about Virat Kohli vs BCCI. The former quit as captain from two formats and was sacked from the third. He openly challenged the might of the cricket board, but BCCI stuck to its guns. When Rohit Sharma got injured just ahead of the South Africa tour and Kohli, mysteriously, before the 2nd Test, plenty of eyebrows were raised. India’s on-field performance was certainly impacted as they looked like a disjointed unit.

Team India began a new era with Rohit taking over as full-time ODI captain during the home series against West Indies. He had already been named leader of the T20 format earlier. The biggest challenge for Rohit, head coach Rahul Dravid and the support staff will be to bring the team together and ensure infighting is kept to the minimum possible level. There have been numerous rumors about there being two camps in Indian cricket - one that supports Rohit and the other that backs Kohli. Even if that is actually the case, the ultimate goal should be the betterment of Indian cricket.

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