Indian captain Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from Tests also on Wednesday (May 7, 2025). Earlier this year, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced their retirement from Twenty20 international immediately after India lifted their second T20 World Cup.
Rohit Sharma made a smashing Test debut against the West Indies at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens in 2013 with a sparkling 177. Rohit played 67 Tests, scored 4301 runs with an average of 40.57 and with 12 hundreds to boot. His last innings was at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 30, last year. The then Indian captain scored nine from 40 deliveries and succumbed to his rival counterpart Pat Cummins.
With the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 as the next major tournament for Team India, Rohit Sharma is expected to lead the side with exuberance and bring home the cup which India won last in 2013 under the leadership of M.S. Dhoni.
Always a bigger player in the blue shade, perhaps Rohit will get one last tango in limited-overs cricket in the ICC Champions Trophy at Pakistan and Dubai from February 19 to March 9. India will play all its games in the United Arab Emirates. And that might well be Rohit’s final act in international cricket.
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Indian captain Rohit Sharma announces his retirement from Tests just after the Sydney Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, on May 7, 2025. File
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Earlier, in June 2024, both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced their retirement from the Twenty20 internationals right after the Indian team lifted the Twenty20 World Cup after a gap of 17 years.
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Rohit Sharma is seen with the head coach Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli during a practice session. Rohit Sharma’s bad form continued in Australia also as he failed to score even a half-century in the three Tests he played.
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Captain Rohit Sharma is seen with his successor in Tests Jasprit Bumrah. Despite Rohit Sharma’s absence in the first Test at Perth, Jasprit Bumrah led from the front to beat Australia.
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In the last 10 Tests he has played, Rohit Sharma has scored only one half-century that too against New Zealand in the Bengaluru Test. India has lost all the three Tests under his captainship against the Kiwis.
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In the Twenty10 internationals, Rohit Sharma has played 159 match scoring 4,231 runs at an average of 32.05 with five centuries to his credit.
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Having announced his retirement from Tests and Twenty20 internationals, Rohit Sharma is expected to lead the Indian Team for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. India will be playing all its matches at the United Arab Emirates.
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Rohit has played 67 Tests, scored 4301 runs with an average of 40.57 and with 12 hundreds to boot.
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Having led Mumbai Indians to victory for five times, this Twenty20 World Cup win will be etched in the mind of Rohit Sharma. Team India defeated South Africa to lift the title after a gap of 17 years.
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Rohit Sharma celebrates after scoring a century during the second Test against West Indies at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on November 15, 2013. He made 177 in his debut match Eden Gardens. Interestingly in the Test, Ravichandran Ashwin scored a magnificent 124.
Published – May 07, 2025 08:29 pm IST