ICCチャンピオンズトロフィー後、インドチームキャプテンとしてのロヒット・シャルマの将来は不透明：レポート

Rohit Sharma will be the India cricket team’s captain for the ICC Champions Trophy. There is no doubt about it. However, the future remains uncertain. Things haven’t been going as well as everyone had hoped. His performance, both as a captain and a batter, hasn’t been up to the mark.

Things reached a point that the Indian captain dropped himself during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and head coach Gautam Gambhir and chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar agreed. In the aftermath of the Test defeat to Australia, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had a chat with all three regarding the future of Indian cricket.

A couple of things have been confirmed. Gautam Gambhir and his support staff will continue despite underwhelming results. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will be part of India’s squad for the ICC Champions Trophy. Players have been told that they have to make themselves available for every match, international or domestic.

The latest development is that the Indian captain was also brought up in the meeting. Suryakumar Yadav is the T20I captain, but Rohit Sharma remains the skipper in the other two formats. Well, until the ICC Champions Trophy. Given his performance, the BCCI isn’t sold on the idea of him continuing for long, especially if results don’t change.

“As of now, nothing is going to happen. However, the management is making up their mind on the captaincy going forward. After the Champions Trophy, if things don’t change, you might see some steps regarding captaincy,” a source told Sports Tak.