What did Gautam Gambhir say on the performance of Kohli-Rohit?Image Credit source: PTI
After losing the ODI series in Australia, Team India has made a comeback with a win against South Africa. The Indian team defeated South Africa 2-1 in the 3-match ODI series. Team India won the trophy by winning by 9 wickets in the last match of the series played in Visakhapatnam. In this series, once again the team’s star batsmen Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma showed with their performance that there is still a lot of cricket left in them and now the team’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has also expressed similar wishes about both of them.
Constant questions regarding the future of Kohli-Rohit
continuously for the last two months Virat Kohli And all kinds of talks were being talked about Rohit Sharma’s future in ODI cricket. It was claimed in many reports that the Australia tour could prove to be the last for both of them because the team management and selectors including the coach are not considering them for the World Cup 2027. But coincidentally, he emerged as the best batsman of Team India in two consecutive ODI series.
The performance of Rohit and Virat in two consecutive ODI series has proved their importance. In such a situation, it seems difficult to exclude both of them and this was also indicated in coach Gambhir’s statement after the match. Talking about the performance of Rohit-Virat in the press conference, Gambhir said, “Both of them have been performing like this for India for a long time and it is expected that both of them will continue to do the same even more in the future in the white ball format.”
After staying away from international cricket for about 9 months, Virat and Rohit had returned from the ODI series on Australia tour. There, in the 3-match series, Rohit won the Player of the Series award by scoring the highest 203 runs, while Kohli scored a half-century in the last match after being out for zero in 2 consecutive matches. Virat won the best player award of the series by scoring the highest 302 runs against South Africa, while Rohit also scored 2 half-centuries.