Captain Rohit Sharma reached level with Sunil Gavaskar, this happened as soon as he lost to Australia
Rohit Sharma: The Indian team had to lose the second test match against Australia by 10 wickets. The Indian team’s batsmen flopped badly in this match. Nitish Reddy was the most successful batsman in the match for Team India, who scored 42-42 runs in both the innings. Team India’s batting line up had great batsmen like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant, but all of them collapsed before the bowling of Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins. By winning the match, Australia has leveled the series at 1-1.
India has lost 8 test matches under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma has lost his fourth consecutive test match as captain. Earlier, under his captaincy, the Indian team had lost the Test series against New Zealand 3-0. Rohit has played a total of 8 test matches as captain so far and he has equaled Sunil Gavaskar. Even under the captaincy of Gavaskar, Team India lost 8 test matches.
Test captaincy for the first time in the year 2022
Rohit Sharma captained the Indian team in Test cricket for the first time in the year 2022. Since then, he has taken command of the team in 22 Test matches, out of which India has won 12 and lost 8. Two tests have been drawn. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi has lost the maximum number of 19 test matches for India as captain.
Captains who have lost the most test matches for India:
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi- 19 Test
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni- 18 Tests
- Virat Kohli- 17 Tests
- Mohammad Azharuddin- 14 Tests
- Sourav Ganguly- 13 Tests
- Bishan Singh Bedi- 11 Tests
- Sachin Tendulkar- 9 Tests
- Sunil Gavaskar- 8 Tests
- Rohit Sharma- 8 Tests
Indian team captain Rohit Sharma scored three runs in the first innings and 6 runs in the second innings. Apart from the bat, he also proved to be a huge flop as a captain. When he decided to field Ravichandran Ashwin in the playing eleven in place of Washington Sundar. His move proved costly for the team. Ashwin could not show much performance in the match. He bowled 18 overs in the first innings, in which he could take only one wicket. With the bat he scored 22 and 7 runs.
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