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The Indian captain Rohit Sharma and the Superstar Schlagmann Virat Kohli are entering the Champions Trophy with intensive priorities this week in their dwindling forces and speculation when they will retire.
The 37-year-old Rohit and Kohli (36) came back to the runs in India’s 3-0 home win in England last week.
However, both were scattered in tests in long, lean patches and, after the triumph of the World Cup last year, have already withdrawn from the T20 cricket.
Age clearly appears with the duo before the first game of the 50-over champions trophy against India against Bangladesh on Thursday in Dubai.
None of the players – both main stones of an impressive Indian team for more than 15 years – said what their plans are.
An Indian media report citing anonymous sources in the Cricket Board said that Opener Rohit made a decision about his future at the end of the tournament.
Rohit’s test career is already looking around and the skipper, who has “rested” himself for the decisive final test against Australia.
“Hopefully you will know when the right time to play,” said the World Cup winner of India from 1983, Kapil Kapil Dev.
“If you think it’s not that, you will call it up.”
After the 3-1 test in Australia, India’s board of directors ordered players commissioned to play domestic cricket.
But both flopped, and Rohit scored three or more and second innings for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy and Kohli in his first and second inner rings and scored six balls for Delhi.
If the idea was to help them get in shape again, it did not work.
Despite the intensive assumption of her futures India head coach Gautam Gambhir, the two staled warts will play “massive roles” at the Champions Trophy.
India, who will play his games in Dubai after refusing to visit Pakistan neighbors and hosts, are favorites to win the title for the third time.
– not confident ‘ –
Rohit came to England Odis with only 31 runs in three games in the defeat of the Australia Test Series.
He scored two in the first Odi against England before rolling back with a 90-ball 119 for the years in the second.
Former Indian batsman Sanjay Manjrekar was skeptical that Rohit could drive from there.
“He wanted a big hundred and he finally got it,” said Manjrekar to Espncricinfo.
“Whether he can beat a few more … we have to wait. I’m not confident.”
Rohit then got out against England in the last game.
In this match, Kohli finally went well in 297 Odis with his 52-our 73rd half century.
Kohli started for the time being before he found his groove in Ahmedabad to end with seven fours and six in his 55-ball inside.
No matter what happens to the Champions Trophy, the expectation in India is that Kohli will continue to play test cricket.
Former English batsman Kevin Pietersen warned India about rejecting the duo prematurely.
“You cannot write off these boys because of the aura you have when you go to the racket,” said Pietersen in his role as a television.
Pietersen said that Kohli in particular deserves the right to assume his own conditions.
“The question mark does not come to me, you, the selectors, the coaches and the other players,” he said.
“Virat Kohli can only answer the question of how long he wants to continue and how much struggle he has to get better, and to create these high standards that everyone expects from him.”
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