3 Indian Players Who Couldn't Excel Their International Careers Because Of Rohit Sharma
Published - 29 Sep 2022, 04:22 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 12:13 AM
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Rohit Sharma is among the top batsmen to ever play for India. The right-handed batsman has played 45 Tests, 233 ODIs, and 140 T20Is so far. With more than 16000 international runs in his career so far, Rohit Sharma is also one of the top run-scorers in international cricket. He holds a batting average of 46.13 in Tests, 48.58 in ODIs, and 31.57 in T20Is.
Rohit Sharma also leads India across all three formats currently and has a good record as a skipper so far. If we take all three formats combined, Sharma is also among the strongest openers in international cricket currently.
Being a regular opener for India for the last almost 10 years, Sharma has also displaced many emerging batters from taking the opening slot. In this article, we talk about 3 Indian players who couldn’t excel in their international careers due to Rohit Sharma.
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3 Indian Players Who Couldn’t Excel Their International Careers Because Of Rohit Sharma
1. Prithvi Shaw
Prithvi Shaw is the first player on this list. Prithvi Shaw made his international debut in a Test match against West Indies in October 2018, in which he also slammed a century. He was looking like a promising opener for the national team. However, Rohit Sharma’s rise as a powerful opener for India in the recent time took the opportunities away from Shaw.
Since 2018, Shaw has played just 5 Tests, 6 ODIs, and 1 T20I for India. Since Rohit Sharma was also a vice-captain for India earlier, he was a regular opener for the team. Hence, Shaw could not excel in his international career as he could not grab enough opportunities. However, Prithvi Shaw is just 22 years old currently and has many years left to become a regular opener for the Indian team in the future.
2. Ruturaj Gaikwad
Ruturaj Gaikwad is another player on this list. After his good performance in IPL 2021 in which Gaikwad won the orange cap, he grabbed a place on the national team. The right-handed batsman made his international debut in a T20I game against Sri Lanka in July 2021.
However, since Rohit Sharma takes a permanent spot as an opener in the Indian team, Gaikwad has only got to play 9 T20I games till now. He has scored 135 runs at an average of 16.87 and 1 fifty. Being a skipper, Sharma takes the opener’s spot in every game he played and hence, other openers like Ruturaj Gaikwad have to warm the bench or lose their spot in the squad.
3. Mayank Agarwal
Mayank Agarwal is another player on this list. Once, Mayank Agarwal was a permanent opener for India in Test format. He made his international debut in 2018 in a Test match against Australia. Scoring 118 runs in his opening game, he put up a strong voice for himself. Later in 2019, Agarwal also slammed 754 runs in 8 Tests at an average of 68.54 to emerge as a top Test opener.
However, in the same year 2019, Rohit Sharma tried opening position in Tests for the first time. He slammed 2 centuries and 1 double century in 5 Test innings in 2019 and showcased that he can take the opener’s spot in the red-ball format as well. Hence, with the rise of Rohit Sharma as a Test opener, Agarwal started missing opportunities in Tests.
In the last 3 years, Mayank Agarwal has only played 12 Tests for India, playing just 4 matches every year. Hence, we can say that Agarwal could not excel in his international career due to the rise of Sharma as a strong Test opener for the Indian team.
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