Rohit Sharma's childhood coach, Dinesh Lad, suggests that the Indian skipper plays domestic cricket to prepare for Test matches after a disappointing performance in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Rohit struggled to score runs and faced criticism for his leadership.

Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma said on Saturday he stood down from the decisive ongoing fifth Australia Test because he was not in form but

The captain of the Indian cricket team is sitting out of a crucial Test match for the first time ever in the middle of an ongoing series as defeats in Australia beckon generational change in the country’s most popular and richest sport.

India coach Gautam Gambhir said veteran batters Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli still have a future in the team if they want it, despite disappointing returns on the test tour of Australia. The tourists went down 3-1 in the series after losing the fifth test by six wickets on Sunday to relinquish the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade.

India contemplated Test cricket without Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma on Monday after the star duo again failed to fire in the bruising series defeat to Australia.

But the sight of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, the most senior and respected batters struggling and failing over and over again, was tough to digest. At one level, it made fans wonder why are they still around,