Indian skipper Rohit Sharma responded stringently to the media reports that he is retiring. On January 3, Jasprit Bumrah arrived at the SCG for the toss, and Rohit stepped down due to not doing well batting.
He said as reported, whoever writes or talks about him outside the dressing room cannot predict when he is retiring because he is a sensible man.
He sits inside with a mic or laptop or a pen, whatever he writes or says, our life does not change because of that. We have played this game for so many years, so they cannot decide when we should go or when we should not play or when we have to sit out or when we should captain.
Sensible aadmi hoon, mature aadmi hoon, do bachhon ka baap hoon, mere paas thoda sa dimaag hai! (I am a sensible man, I am a mature man, I am a father of two kids, so I have a little bit of brain.) Rohit told the broadcasters on Day 2 of the SCG Test.
Rohit hasn’t been in good form of late. He has scored just 31 runs in five innings thus far in the Test series. He was also short of single figures in the pink-ball warm-up against Canberra’s Manuka Oval.
He could only score one fifty this season thus far, and that too in the 2024-25 home series against Bangladesh when he was already 37 years old.
I don’t believe in what will happen in 6 months or 4 months time, I always stay in the present and think about what needs to be done right now,he said.
Conversation between Rohit and Coach and Selectors-
Basically the chat I had with the coach and selector was simple: I am not in form, it is an important match and we need a player in form. Not thinking too far ahead, right now what the team needs is the priority. He said.
I made this decision after we came here (Sydney), it was going on in my mind that it is important for me to step aside because I wasn’t getting runs with the bat,” he said.
