Former India cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu has lashed out at the Indian management for dropping their captain, Rohit Sharma. For the unaware, with the India vs Australia Test series on the line, Rohit wasn’t included in the XI. Instead, Jasprit Bumrah took the leadership from Rohit, and Shubman Gill came back into the side.
Happened for the first time in Indian cricket history: Sidhu
The decision was allegedly taken by Rohit Sharma himself, who hasn’t been able to perform in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. Bumrah had hailed his captain’s leadership at the toss, claiming that he’d opted out for the betterment of the team.
But Sidhu, wasn’t having any. In a video posted on his social media account, he said, “Today Indian captain Rohit Sharma was made to sit out. It’s bizarre. This has happened for the first time in Indian cricket history. Either you don’t make someone captain, but if you do, and that too a great like him, who has serviced Indian cricket for so long, then he’s out of form; it doesn’t matter.”
The swashbuckling batter claimed that it shouldn’t be an option to allow your captain to leave the side under any circumstances. If the team is losing, they should lose under him, and vice versa as well. “A captain opting out of the team isn’t an option. It sends the wrong signals. A captain never delinks from his ship, even if it is a sinking ship. And he’s a well-respected man, and it’s a wrong decision,” Sidhu added.
India’s Playing XI for the Sydney Test
Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah (c), Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna
OUT: Rohit Sharma and Akash Deep
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