All posts tagged: Indian Cricket Team Transition

‘Let’s not panic’: Sanjay Manjrekar urges calm after Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retirements | Cricket News

‘Let’s not panic’: Sanjay Manjrekar urges calm after Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retirements | Cricket News

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Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar said that there was no need to panic after the back to back retirements of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the space of a week, adding that the Indian team managed to move forward even after the Fab Four, comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, and Sourav Ganguly, all hung up their boots. “I know there’ll be a few fans concerned. There was a sense of panic when the fab four quit all at the same time, but guess what? A couple of years later, India was the number one Test team in the world,” Manjrekar said on Instagram “So, as long as I believe in this very strongly, as long as the sport is popular in India and there are enough young players, youth, desperate to play for India, and there are thousands in India, which means anybody who sort of comes through that kind of a grind has to be quality talent,” said Manjrekar. Manjrekar also said that when Laxman, Ganguly, Dravid and Tendulkar retired, it …

India’s long-term Test future: How will Gautam Gambhir and Co handle Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli’s form and impending captaincy question? | Cricket News

India’s long-term Test future: How will Gautam Gambhir and Co handle Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli’s form and impending captaincy question? | Cricket News

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A year of transition and transformations awaits Indian cricket in the longest format. The ongoing series is still alive. India could win in Sydney, retain the BGT, and are not yet out of the World Test Championship final race mathematically. But there are clear signs that the selectors, head coach Gautam Gambhir, and team management are thinking ahead and planning to leap into the future of Indian cricket. In the process, they would have to take tough and important calls. Like the form and future of Captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, two struggling stalwarts; or who will be the captain when Rohit retires; or the immediate future of Rishabh Pant. India’s next big Test series is six months away. They travel for a five-match series to England, a place where aging Indian batsmen with vulnerable “outside-the-off-stump” game have historically struggled. It is learnt that the chairman of selectors, Ajit Agarkar, had a lengthy chat with Rohit after the team landed in Sydney. This was followed by the five selectors going into an online huddle …

After Ashwin and possibly Rohit Sharma, biggest transition in Indian cricket history is officially on

After Ashwin and possibly Rohit Sharma, biggest transition in Indian cricket history is officially on

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It is a question that is going to be repeated multiple times in the coming days and months as India begin 2025 with the biggest transition they have ever faced. It is a transition that has been expected for a long time. A transition those in the team management and the selection panel have been meticulously planning in the hope of avoiding tremors. But here they are, a full-blown transition taking place in the most unexpected manner. First came the shock retirement of Ravichandran Ashwin in the middle of the Australia tour. And with just a week left to go, India will take the field at the Sydney Cricket Ground without their regular captain Rohit Sharma, after head coach Gautam Gambhir refused to confirm his place in the XI at the pre-match press conference. Transitions are not new. The upcoming one won’t be the last. But this one is perhaps the biggest and the most challenging one for India. “I’ve always felt that when a transition has happened in the past, there was one department …