Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma, and a few more top players took a vacation from international cricket following the team’s devastating loss to Australia in the 2023 ODI World Cup finals. In the next two-match Test series against South Africa, which begins on December 26, all three are expected to return. Prior to the 36-year-old’s first on-field performance following the heartbreak of the World Cup, former New Zealand international Simon Doull praised him for his outstanding recent play and lack of concern over recent achievements.
During the just-finished World Cup, Rohit Sharma unselfish style at the batting set the tone for India.
In order to give the visiting squad a strong start in South Africa, where they have never won a red-ball series, Simon Doull wants the opener to play the same style of cricket during the Test series. In addition, Simon Doull referred to Rohit Sharma as the “most selfless Indian cricketer” he has seen in a while and said that he had done everything within his power to support his team’s victory.
It will include slightly lessening his intensity in his playing. In the past 10 to 18 months, Rohit Sharma has shown me that he is perhaps the most selfless Indian cricket player I have seen in a very long time. He has exerted every effort to ensure the victory of his side. In order to enable the other members of the team to play the style they do, especially in white-ball cricket, he created this team and played a specific way, Doull said at Star Sports.
“We saw in the World Cup that he set the tone at the top of the order, enabling the middle order to perform as they did. For him, it’s a minor adjustment, nothing major. That aggressive Rohit Sharma is still what I want to see in him. We observe it during test matches,” he continued.
India has already begun preparing for the next test series. Sarfaraz Khan of the team hit a century in the intrasquad competition they are playing right now. Although the cricketer is not currently in the national team, the ton could make him reconsider his place in the team.
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