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BREAKING: Lord’s ODI could be Rohit Sharma’s last match for India | Cricket News

BREAKING: Lord’s ODI could be Rohit Sharma’s last match for India | Cricket News

3 min readJul 16, 2026 09:50 PM IST The historic Lord’s, hosting the third and final ODI between India and England on July 19, could be Rohit Sharma’s last game in the format, as the BCCI’s senior selection committee have informed him that they have decided to move on from him post the series, The Indian Express understands. The Indian selection committee is learnt to have spoken to Sharma alongside coach Gautam Gambhir last week and have laid down their plans going forward. The selection committee wants to give a chance to youngsters like Yashasvi Jaiswal, who has been waiting in the wings, and it’s clear that the committee is not looking at Sharma in the role for the 2027 50-over World Cup. “Selectors have informed Rohit he is not in their scheme of things post the England tour and they are moving on from him after this series. Though he wanted to continue, especially after working on his fitness. The selectors have left the ball in Sharma’s court to decide his future,” a source …

India’s Rohit headache: Is it age or technique? Will there be a revival or terminal decline? | Cricket News

India’s Rohit headache: Is it age or technique? Will there be a revival or terminal decline? | Cricket News

Of late, Rohit Sharma the batsman has had the demeanour of a mumbler in a loud bazaar. Tentative, hesitant, unsure. He seems to be prodding at something, something alive and dangerous that could explode on him. At his best, Rohit the cricketer came across as a guy who took what he was doing really seriously, but never took himself seriously. He had that wonderful nonchalance, yet intensity to set and dictate the tempo for his team. It can perhaps be seen as an overreach, even a cliche, but there does seem a wariness, if not weariness, in his visage these days. Definitely the former as a batsman, and the latter as a captain on field. It’s not the leadership but the batting that’s his main worry. In the 2011-12 tour of Australia, a parallel of sorts was seen in Rahul Dravid. He had started well in the first Test, but slowly he kept getting bowled. There were a few murmurs then from a few experts about how it could be something to do with the …