Rohit Sharma Replaces Virat Kohli as India's ODI Captain
Rohit Sharma Replaces Virat Kohli as India's ODI Captain
In a massive announcement, the BCCI has named Rohit Sharma as the new ODI captain of the Indian cricket team. He will take over from his predecessor Virat Kohli starting the three-ODI series against South Africa in January 2022.
Rohit, who took over as India's T20I skipper after the T20 World Cup, led in the recently-concluded three T20I series against New Zealand, which the home team comfortably won 3-0. With Kohli already stepping down as India's T20I captain, it was only a matter of time before Rohit took over as the team's limited-overs captain. He was also promoted as India's vice-captain in Tests, the deputy to Kohli, taking over from an out-of-form Ajinkya Rahane.
Rohit has less than a year to prepare for the T20 World Cup in Australia next year, which will be followed by the 50-over World Cup in India in 2023. With the Rohit Sharma-Rahul Dravid partnership taking over, the two upcoming ICC events promise to be the biggest challenge for Team India, especially after their poor show in the T20 World Cup, where the team failed to reach the semi-final - the first time it had happened at an ICC event in eight years.
Rohit has led India in 10 ODIs, out of which the team won eight. Unfortunately though, Kohli's captaincy tenure ends without an ICC trophy, even though he is second in the list of most runs scored by an captain in ODIs.
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