Shubman Gill replaces Rohit: A few days ago, during the Asia Cup, no one had thought that there was going to be a big change in Indian cricket, but when the team was announced on Saturday, everyone was surprised. Rohit Sharma was removed and Shubman Gill was made the new captain of the Indian ODI cricket team. After Rohit, now the reins of Team India have been handed over to Yuva Gill. Shubman Gill will now take charge of the team in both Team India’s ODI and Test format. 38 -year -old Rohit Sharma removed and 26 years old Gill What is the inside story to make it a captain … Let’s know.
Let’s go a year back in 2024. In June 2024, the Indian team ended the ICC Trophy drought after 12 years and won the T20 World Cup title. The title proved to be a new era to the beginning for Team India. Because at the same time, two legendary players of the team Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma announced to retire from T20 format after winning the World Cup. A few months later, in May 2025, the two giants also announced retirement from Test cricket during the Indian Premier League (IPL), exactly when the five -match Test series against England was scheduled to begin.
Shubman Gill was made the captain of the Indian Test team before the England tour. This Judgment Of Also, a new chapter started in the history of Indian cricket, which brought a big change in both the future and leadership of the team.
Ajit Agarkar told the reason
Work on the policy of ‘Performance First’
It is now clear that since the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the Indian team management has adopted the policy of Performance First. In that series, Rohit Sharma was excluded from the final Test due to poor form, and since then there was an indication that now the team selection would be on the basis of performance only. Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar said, “It was not an easy decision to remove such a successful player from the captaincy, but sometimes we have to take such decisions in view of the future of the team.” He also said that Indian cricket is now in a period where every player will have to prove his place with his performance, no matter how big the name is. Perhaps the selectors want Gill to get a long time to prepare his team before the 2027 ODI World Cup.
Team India is thinking ahead of Rohit and Kohli
On the other hand, after the announcement of Team India for ODI and T20 series against Australia, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli from former cricketer Ajit Agarkar and Virat Kohli’s 2027 ODI Questioned about playing in the World Cup. Ajit Agarkar said in response to this question that ‘Rohit and Virat Both Sole This Time This About In Any talk No Tell Want’. , That is, it would not be wrong to say that the doors of the 2027 ODI World Cup to be held in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe have almost closed for both of them. In such a situation, it is now very likely that these two veterans of Team India should retire from this format after the tour of Australia.