Rohit Sharma: The Indian team had to face defeat by 10 wickets in the second test match against Australia. The batsmen of the Indian team flopped badly in this match. Nitish Reddy was the most successful batsman in the match for Team India, scoring 42-42 runs in both innings. Team India’s batting line-up had great batsmen like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant, but they all collapsed before the bowling of Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins. By winning this match, Australia has leveled the series at 1-1.
India has lost 8 Test matches under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma has lost his fourth consecutive Test match as captain. Earlier, under his captaincy, the Indian team lost the Test series against New Zealand by 3-0. Rohit has played a total of 8 Test matches as captain so far and has equaled Sunil Gavaskar. Even under Gavaskar’s captaincy, Team India has lost 8 Test matches.
Test captaincy for the first time in the year 2022
Rohit Sharma took over the captaincy of the Indian team in Test cricket for the first time in the year 2022. Since then, he has captained the team in 22 Test matches, of which India have won 12 and lost 8. Two Tests have been drawn. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi has lost the most Test matches for India as a captain with 19.
Most Test match losing captain for India:
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi- 19 Tests
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni- 18 Tests
- Virat Kohli- 17 Tests
- Mohammad Azharuddin- 14 Tests
- Sourav Ganguly- 13 Tests
- Bishan Singh Bedi- 11 Tests
- Sachin Tendulkar- 9 Tests
- Sunil Gavaskar- 8 Tests
- Rohit Sharma- 8 Tests
Indian team captain Rohit Sharma scored three runs in the first innings and 6 runs in the second innings. Apart from the bat, he also proved to be a huge flop as a captain. When he decided to replace Washington Sundar with Ravichandran Ashwin in the playing eleven. His move proved costly for the team. Ashwin could not perform much in the match. He bowled 18 overs in the first innings, taking only one wicket. He scored 22 and 7 runs with the bat.
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