After India lost the first Test against England in Hyderabad, skipper Rohit Sharma‘s captaincy has drawn a lot of criticism. The latest to join the bandwagon is Michael Vaughan, who feels that India would have never lost if Virat Kohli was around, and Rohit just ‘switched off’.
On the YouTube channel, ‘Club Prairie Fire’, Vaughan said, “They missed Virat Kohli’s captaincy massively in Test cricket. Under Virat’s captaincy that week, India wouldn’t have lost the game. Rohit is a legend and a great player. But I felt he just switched off completely.”
In his column for The Telegraph was well, Vaughan had mentioned that Rohit wasn’t proactive as a skipper, and looked ‘clueless’, while Ollie Pope took the game away from India with his 196. “I thought Rohit Sharma’s captaincy was very, very average. I thought he was so reactive, I don’t think he maneuvered his field or was proactive with his bowling changes. And he didn’t have any answer to Ollie Pope’s sweeps or reverse sweeps,” Vaughan wrote.
Now India will have a chance to redeem their campaign as the second Test begins on February 2 in Vizag.
