Virat Kohli’s youth mentor Rajkumar Sharma has supported Rohit Sharma to take the group to “fresher statures” while additionally conceding that the group has no preferable competitors over Rohit to assume control over the reins from Kohli in Test cricket.
After Kohli was taken out from ODI captaincy last November, a month subsequent to venturing down from the job in T20I cricket, BCCI named Rohit as the new white-ball pioneer and the bad habit chief of the Test side, supplanting out-of-structure Ajinkya Rahane. With the 33-year-old surrendering his job in Test cricket too, recently after the 2-1 series misfortune in South Africa, Rohit has arisen as the leader to supplant Kohli.
Addressing India News on Kohli’s conceivable substitution as Test skipper, Rajkumar supported Rohit to assume the liability.
“I don’t think there is any competitor separated from Rohit Sharma on the grounds that there could be no other player whose spot is sure in each of the three arrangements. So I accept he is the better decision and he has done astounding captaincy in the IPL and at whatever point he has an opportunity for the Indian group. I have full assumption that he will take the Indian group to more up to date statures,” he said.
Different competitors incorporate KL Rahul, who had driven the Indian group in the Johannesburg Test and in the three-match ODI series in South Africa, and two unpracticed choices in Rishabh Pant and Jasprit Bumrah.
The previous cricketer additionally tossed his viewpoint in India’s group choice for the West Indies series at home saying that it helps facilitate the method involved with picking players assuming both lead trainer Rahul Dravid and Rohit are in total agreement, which he feels will occur.
“Each chief has his own decision and each commander wants to get the players he needs and by and large that occurs also. It turns out to be simple assuming Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid are in total agreement, on the off chance that the chief and mentor need a specific group, the selectors feel it right to give them that group. This ought to happen likewise and I feel that will occur also,” he added.
India will next take on West Indies at home in a restricted overs series containing three ODIs and as a huge number, beginning February 6.
