Then definitely play Hitman! Rohit Sharma not only admitted his poor form but also expressed his compulsion due to which he sat out.

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New Delhi. There was an uproar when Indian team captain Rohit Sharma did not play in the Sydney Test. It was natural for this to happen because various things were being said about Hitman’s form. In such a situation, when Rohit excluded himself from the playing-11, speculations started that the Test career of this 38 year old senior batsman is now over. Rohit himself put an end to the speculations of retirement. However, he also said that he still has a lot of hunger left to score runs. Hitman agreed to exclude himself from the top-11 in the interest of the team. He also gave a hint as to what was the compulsion that he had to take such a tough decision for himself.

Rohit Sharma made it clear that the entire batting of Team India is in shambles at this time. Runs are not coming from the batsmen’s bat. The team is struggling to score runs. In such a situation, his own form has become a matter of great concern. He had to take this decision in the interest of the team. In the year 2020-21, when the Indian team reached Australia under the captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane/Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara’s bat wreaked havoc on the Kangaroos in the Border Gavaskar Trophy. Then he scored 271 runs in eight innings of 4 matches. Rishabh Pant also scored 274 runs in five innings with his bat. Together, these two batsmen played an important role in defeating Australia after almost 30 years on the Gabba soil. Coach Gautam Gambhir himself had also requested to give Pujara a chance in the team before the Australia tour. However, the selectors had clearly refused to do so.

Hitman was understanding the weakness of batting
If we talk about the current tour, apart from Yashasvi Jaiswal, there is no batsman who has been able to score runs continuously. Jaiswal has scored 391 runs in 10 innings of five matches at an average of 53. Nitish Reddy definitely scored a century with his bat but after that he was seen struggling for form. If we talk about top batsmen, Virat has been able to score only 190 runs in 9 innings. Virat definitely scored a century in the first match but the Australian team found his weakness. Every time he lost, he was caught cheaply behind the wicket in the same manner. Team India had a lot of expectations from KL Rahul but when it came to scoring runs continuously, he was seen disappointing Rohit Sharma again and again. He scored 276 runs in 10 innings at an average of 30.

Rohit had no option
Be it KL Rahul or Virat or Nitish, Shubman and Washington Sundar. All these batsmen have been scoring some runs in this series. Rohit has scored only 31 runs with the bat in 5 innings of three matches on Australia tour. He has emerged as the weakest link of the team. Hitman is a team-thinking player. He knows the importance of the Sydney Test to reach the final of the World Test Championship. This is the reason that despite not wanting to, he thought it better to sacrifice himself to take the team to the finals of the championship. Had it not been such a high-stakes match, there was very little possibility that he would have excluded himself from the playing-11.