{"id":1221301,"date":"2025-01-07T22:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/?p=1221301"},"modified":"2025-01-07T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:51:16","slug":"rohit-sharma-to-retire-soon-ajit-agarkar-to-make-massive-call-on-the-decision-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/rohit-sharma-to-retire-soon-ajit-agarkar-to-make-massive-call-on-the-decision-report-1221301\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma to Retire soon? Ajit Agarkar to make MASSIVE call on the decision: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India suffered a shocking 1-3 defeat by Australia in the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25, and lost their chance of qualifying for the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 final. The performance of Rohit Sharma has been heavily criticized as the Indian skipper could only manage to score 31 runs in five innings. He even decided to opt out from the final Test in Sydney because of his dismal performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since his decision to opt out from the Sydney Test, there have been rumours about his retirement, even though he claimed that he is not finished yet, and that he is going nowhere. However, the BCCI and the chief selector Ajit Agarkar are not giving any thought to this decision by the Indian skipper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report by <em>Hindustan Times<\/em>, new BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia is all ready to sit with the Indian team management, along with chief selector Ajit Agarkar and review the performance in the BGT. The future of Rohit Sharma in Tests will also be something to be discussed about, and they are not paying attention to the interview where the 37-year-old declared that he isn&#8217;t going anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final call on Rohit Sharma&#8217;s future rests only on Ajit Agarkar. The report also revealed that Rohit Sharma dropped himself from the final Test in order to have one final chance to qualify for the WTC 2025 final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong><em>Rohit was waiting to see if India could find an escape route to the WTC final. Now, it\u2019s really up to him whether to continue to fight for a spot. But the decision will be down to Ajit Agarkar and his selection committee<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d a BCCI official, on request of anonymity told Hindustan Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rohit Sharma&#8217;s total of 31 runs from 5 innings, means that he scored at an average of 6.20, which is the worst by a touring captain in Australia. In the last 8 Test matches, Rohit Sharma has scored 164 runs at an average of just over 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new reports, new BCCI secretary and Ajit Agarkar will sit with Indian team management to review the team&#8217;s performance and have a word about the future of Rohit Sharma in Test cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":1221308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5590,127,191,142,928],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rohit Sharma to Retire soon? 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