Rohit Sharma, burdened under the burden of captaincy, reached the threshold of topping the shameful club.
Rohit Sharma
Indian cricket team is in the news these days due to its poor performance. After losing the first two Test matches at home against New Zealand, Team India has lost the series and is now in danger of a clean sweep. After suffering crushing defeats in the Bengaluru and Pune Tests, fans expected a better performance from Team India in the third Test, but what happened was what was feared.
On the first day of the third Test match being played in Mumbai, New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first. Indian spin bowlers performed brilliantly and bowled out New Zealand for 235 runs in the first innings. Ravindra Jadeja took 5 wickets while Washington Sundar took 4 wickets. After this, captain Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal entered the field to open the Indian innings but proved to be a flop. Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion after scoring 18 runs. New Zealand bowler Matt Henry hunted Rohit. In this way, he failed to do wonders with the bat for the third consecutive Test.
Rohit Sharma close to making a shameful record
For the past few days, Rohit Sharma has been facing criticism in both his captaincy and batting departments. Recently, when Team India lost the Test series at home for the first time in 12 years, questions were raised on both his batting and captaincy. Now after flopping in the first innings of the third test, Rohit has once again come under the scanner.
You will be surprised to know that Rohit Sharma is the second Indian captain to have the lowest batting average at home in Test matches. If this continues, he will soon overtake Sourav Ganguly in terms of worst batting average. At home, Rohit Sharma captained Team India in 27 innings of 16 Test matches and scored 854 runs at an average of 31.62. Whereas, Sourav Ganguly’s average is 29.83.
Lowest batting average by an Indian captain at home in Test matches (minimum 500 runs)
- 29.83 – Sourav Ganguly (868 runs)
- 31.62 – Rohit Sharma (854 runs)
- 31.91 – Kapil Dev (766 runs)
- 32.19 – Tiger Pataudi (1481 runs)
- 39.76 – Rahul Dravid (517 runs)
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