{"id":255219,"date":"2025-03-09T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/former-india-captain-shuts-talks-of-rohit-sharmas-retirement-expects-him-to-play-longer\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T12:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:21:55","slug":"former-india-captain-shuts-talks-of-rohit-sharmas-retirement-expects-him-to-play-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/former-india-captain-shuts-talks-of-rohit-sharmas-retirement-expects-him-to-play-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Former India captain shuts talks of Rohit Sharma&#8217;s retirement, expects him to play longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/resize\/newbucket\/1200_-\/2025\/03\/untitled-design-2025-03-09t165912-1741519823.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Former India captain shuts talks of Rohit Sharma&#8217;s retirement, expects him to play longer\" title=\"Former India captain shuts talks of Rohit Sharma&#8217;s retirement, expects him to play longer\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"artdesc\">Former India captain Sourav Ganguly opined that Rohit Sharma should continue longer and not announce his retirement after the Champions Trophy final. He reminded that the 37-year-old recently won the T20 World Cup as captain.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<p class=\"artconfp\">Former India cricketer and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly played a vital role in appointing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" rel=\"noopener\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> as the captain of the ODI team in 2021. It was a controversial call, as star batter <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" rel=\"noopener\">Virat Kohli<\/a> was axed from the position. In the meantime, under Rohit\u2019s leadership, India qualified for the final of the ODI World Cup 2023, won the T20 World Cup in 2024 and now once again, the team has made to the summit clash of the Champions Trophy 2026.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rohit\u2019s form is currently a matter of concern. The 37-year-old struggled with the bat in the Test series against New Zealand and Australia and even dropped himself in the fifth Test in Sydney. Soon after that, reports claimed that the opener may announce his retirement from red-ball cricket. However, that didn\u2019t happen as Rohit mentioned that he wants to continue playing cricket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His form didn\u2019t improve much in the Champions Trophy, having scored only 104 runs in four matches. Even though his captaincy has been impeccable, his batting form has raised doubts and there have been reports of Rohit announcing his retirement after the Champions Trophy final.<\/p>\n<p>Sourav Ganguly however dismissed the talks, stating that the cricketer recently led India to a World Cup win. He believes that a discussion regarding his retirement shouldn\u2019t take place and expects the cricketer to play longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is there talk of Rohit Sharma&#8217;s retirement? Why is this even a question? He won the World Cup just a few months ago. I don&#8217;t know what the selectors are thinking, but Rohit is playing very well,\u201d Ganguly mentioned while talking to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Champions Trophy final against New Zealand, vice-captain <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/shubman-gill\" rel=\"noopener\">Shubman Gill<\/a> mentioned that Rohit hasn\u2019t talked about his retirement and added that the cricketer may think about the same after the summit clash.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/former-india-captain-shuts-talks-of-rohit-sharma-s-retirement-expects-him-to-play-longer-2025-03-09-979867\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India captain Sourav Ganguly opined that Rohit Sharma should continue longer and not announce his retirement after the Champions Trophy final. He reminded that the 37-year-old recently won the T20 World Cup as captain. Former India cricketer and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly played a vital role in appointing Rohit Sharma as the captain of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/resize\/newbucket\/1200_-\/2025\/03\/untitled-design-2025-03-09t165912-1741519823.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[354,8064,273,65,1557,7699,345,1696,1705,66],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255221,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255219\/revisions\/255221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}