Rohit Sharma: India’s Take a look at cricket captain retires from longest format

Rohit will proceed to play ODIs and stays skipper in that format, having received the Champions Trophy in March. He retired from T20 internationals after profitable the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Rohit has performed 67 Checks and has been India’s captain since changing Virat Kohli in 2022.

He received half of his 24 Checks as skipper, giving him the perfect win share as India captain behind Kohli, and reached the ultimate of the World Take a look at Championship in 2023, the place India misplaced to Australia.

However final 12 months Rohit oversaw the 3-0 residence defeat by New Zealand – India’s first Take a look at collection defeat at residence for 12 years – and the 3-1 loss within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy towards Australia.

Rohit was dropped for the decisive fifth Take a look at in Sydney after a run of poor kind.

The elegant right-hander retires having made 4,301 Take a look at runs at a mean of 40.57 with 12 centuries. His prime rating was 212 towards South Africa in Ranchi in 2019, scored off simply 255 balls.

He had made just one fifty in 15 innings since his final Take a look at hundred – 103 towards England in Dharamsala in March 2024.

The highly-anticipated five-match collection towards England begins in Leeds on 20 June and marks the beginning of the brand new World Take a look at Championship cycle for either side.

Tempo bowler Jasprit Bumrah deputised for Rohit when he missed the primary Take a look at in Australia by harm and did so once more when Rohit sat out the collection finale.