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With the axe hanging, Rohit Sharma’s Lord’s innings says he isn’t done

With the axe hanging, Rohit Sharma’s Lord’s innings says he isn’t done

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4 min readJul 19, 2026 10:08 PM IST The suspense around Rohit Sharma’s future might continue till India’s next assignment in September unless there is an official word. But through the course of his innings at Lord’s in the third ODI, Rohit showed he isn’t going anywhere without a fight. If there is anyone waiting to take his spot, the call should come from the selectors. The lead-up to the series decider had firmly been on Rohit. As reported by The Indian Express, the selectors have already informed him about their decision to move on. The message was relayed to him before the series, and prior to the outing at Lord’s, Rohit had seldom appeared the batsman one had got used to. Both at Edgbaston and particularly at Cardiff, he had appeared a batsman who was perhaps playing with a cluttered mind. The result of it was, no matter how much he tried, he struggled for rhythm. But on Sunday, Rohit came across as a different batsman. Not that he didn’t struggle. His innings was …

‘Not all fairy tales have happy endings’

‘Not all fairy tales have happy endings’

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4 min readUpdated: Jul 19, 2026 01:30 PM IST Former India wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik has said there should be clear communication from the selectors to senior players like Rohit Sharma about their future, amid speculation of the 39-year-old’s retirement after the third and final ODI against England at Lord’s on Sunday. Karthik felt that senior players deserved to finish well, but admitted that there were no guaranteed fairytale endings in sport. “It will need a lot of communication, a lot of clarity, and it’s not easy. Then you have the players themselves, who are obviously making a mark with every game they play. In every tournament they go to, they perform so well, and it is not easy to keep them out,” he told Wisden’s “The Scoop” podcast. “But having said all of that, there is a way in which some of the seniors will want to finish, and I do wish they are given that opportunity because of what they’ve achieved for the country. But in saying that, it is not the easiest thing …

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

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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 …

‘Them eyes tell u a story…Surely it’s time to rescind his test retirement’

‘Them eyes tell u a story…Surely it’s time to rescind his test retirement’

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Virat Kohli announced his Test retirement ahead of the series against England last year. Although he managed to get a 100 against Australia in Perth, his returns were quite minimal in the tour and the series before that one against New Zealand, too, which did not yield runs as expected from his bat. However, his form in recent series against South Africa has been blistering, and there have been calls from a few former players asking for the return of the 37-year-old back into the format. “Them eyes tell u a story…Surely it’s time to rescind his test retirement. Would love to see him back in Test cricket,” Uthappa wrote on his Twitter account. Alongside Kohli, Rohit too announced his retirement. Uthappa opined that the exit was not natural. “I don’t know if it was a forced surrender, but it definitely didn’t seem like a natural exit. What the truth is, they themselves will have to share in their own time. But I don’t think it was natural,” Uthappa said on his YouTube channel in …

‘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 …

‘Greatest players should play till 50 years of age’

‘Greatest players should play till 50 years of age’

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Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have announced their retirement from the longer format of the game in the space of a week, just ahead of the marquee England series. With both the veterans exiting in a short space of time, it creates an experience void on the side. However, the form of both players has been on the downward curve for a while in red-ball format, and the series against New Zealand (at home) and Australia (away) have seen some unpleasant results. Yuvraj Singh’s father, Yograj, though, believes that both of them still have something to offer. “Virat is a big player, so it will obviously be a loss. When many players were either removed, retired, or coerced into retirement in 2011, the team fell apart and has still not stood back up. But everyone’s time comes. I feel a lot of cricket is still left in Virat and Rohit,” Yograj told ANI. “I told Yuvi (Yuvraj Singh) that it was not the right move when he was retiring. One should walk away from the …

Michael Atherton speculates on Rohit Sharma’s Test career: ‘Was his retirement entirely his own choice, or did he have a sense that he was about to be pushed out?’ | Cricket News

Michael Atherton speculates on Rohit Sharma’s Test career: ‘Was his retirement entirely his own choice, or did he have a sense that he was about to be pushed out?’ | Cricket News

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Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma has recently announced his retirement from the red-ball format. His form in the format has been on a downward spiral since the last home season and the tour to Australia. In addition to that, he also has become the first Indian captain to get whitewashed on home soil against (series longer than a two-match series, 3-0 loss vs New Zealand) any opposition, this was followed by another disspointing series as captain Down Under where he lost two of the three games he captained. “Was his retirement entirely his own choice, or did he have a sense that he was about to be pushed out? There was a report (From The Indian Express) just a day before Rohit’s announcement, suggesting that the selectors had made the decision to move on from him. Of course, that’s pure speculation, but ultimately, the decision wasn’t unexpected. It’s a tough position for any captain when you’re not scoring runs and your team is losing. India lost 6 out of their last 8 matches under Rohit’s leadership, …

Knocks that encapsulated Rohit Sharma’s Test career | Cricket News

Knocks that encapsulated Rohit Sharma’s Test career | Cricket News

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In the list of India’s highest run-getters in Tests, Rohit Sharma occupies the 16th spot – with 4,301 runs in 110 outings, an average of 40.57 and 12 hundreds. The numbers aptly capture his place among the country’s best willow-wielders. Rohit was a good batsman with great moments in Tests. But in view of his undisputed gifts, the statistics are bound to imply that his talents never soared fully in the longest version. Even more fascinating is the company of the 4,000-ers from his country — that bracket where a batsman is not good enough to be counted among the greats yet superior to most of those to have worn Test stripes. At the upper end is MS Dhoni (4,867), whose batting in the five-day format was acquired and laborious; then comes Mohinder Amarnath, the self-admittedly less-gifted batsman than his brothers but one who overcame technical glitches with toughness of mind. Rohit does share some of his traits, his game was predetermined to fail in England, and he did on his maiden tour to those …

How Australia ate up the career of another Indian batting veteran

How Australia ate up the career of another Indian batting veteran

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Somehow, Australia has had this effect on Indian batting careers. Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman lost their aura in the 2012 series down under, and both retired not long after. Sachin Tendulkar too didn’t have a good series, losing his aura a touch, and from then on it was a matter of time when he would call it a day. Now, it’s the turn of Rohit Sharma who couldn’t survive the nightmarish tour of Australia earlier this year, and has now retired from Tests after the selectors chose to move past him for Test captaincy. But unlike those three, Rohit’s Test career never reached the heights it was expected to when a fresh-faced youngster lit up domestic cricket with his exquisite batting style that had even the hard-to-please, old-school cricketers purring in delight. But things didn’t go his way. Neither the end – he averaged little over 6 in Australia and 15 in the home series against New Zealand – nor the start, where he struggled to cement his spot, was kind on him. For …

A look at cricketer’s numbers for India in Tests

A look at cricketer’s numbers for India in Tests

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Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from Test cricket on Wednesday, bringing the curtains down on a rollercoaster career in the red-ball format. In 2021, Rohit became the 35th test captain of India as he took over following Virat Kohli’s resignation. His first assignment was a two-match series against Sri Lanka. He led India to the World Test Championship final in the 2021/23 cycle, but the team lost to Australia in the title clash. Here’s a statistical breakdown of Rohit Sharma’s Test career: Rohit Sharma’s Test career spanned over 12 years after he made his debut in 2013 against West Indies scoring 177, second second-highest score by an Indian debutant. Despite playing for 12 years, Rohit played only 67 test matches having a topsy-turvy career. Starting off as a middle order batter, Rohit had an inconsistent run in the first half of his career, i.e. 2013-2019. His red-ball career changed in 2019 when he was promoted as an opener against South Africa, eventually becoming the captain in 2021. Story continues below this ad 67: Rohit Sharma …