Twitter Reacts As Rohit Sharma Gets Appointed India's New Test Captain

On Saturday, the BCCI and the selection committee came up with the massive news of Rohit Sharma’s appointment as the new Test captain of Team India while announcing India’s Test squad vs Sri Lanka. Rohit’s appointment was on the cards ever since Virat Kohli came up with the decision of quitting India’s red-ball captaincy.

The selection committee had no other choice but to go ahead with Rohit being the senior-most member of the squad as Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara have been struggling to find the form. Rohit Sharma is now India‘s all-format captain as he had already usurped the throne of white ball captaincy last year.

Twitter Reacts On Rohit Sharma’s Appointment As The New Indian Test Captain

Some senior Indian players were handed a whiplash by the selection committee while announcing India’s Test squad vs Sri Lanka. Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha, and Ishant Sharma were all dropped from the squads.

India’s Test squad vs Sri Lanka: Rohit Sharma (C), Mayank Agarwal, Priyank Panchal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant (Wk), KS Bharat (Wk), Ravichandran Ashwin (Subject to Fitness), Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Saurabh Kumar

Ravindra Jadeja will be making a return to international cricket with the series against Sri Lanka. Shubman Gill has been added to the squad too which means he will in all likelihood open the batting alongside Rohit and Mayank Agarwal will be acting as the backup opener. Kuldeep Yadav has also made his return to the Test setup against Sri Lanka.’

Twitter was jubilant over Rohit’s appointment as the new Test captain and here are the best tweets:

Rohit Sharma is the new test captain of India ?#RohithSharma #INDvSLpic.twitter.com/drYaaPlDha

— CRICKET VIDEOS ? (@AbdullahNeaz) February 19, 2022

All format captain of indian Circket team @ImRo45 #RohithSharma ? pic.twitter.com/h75efM1qsK

— Raj (@PremRaj184) February 19, 2022

All format Indian captain #Hitman #RohithSharma ???? pic.twitter.com/7WYKONyhwH

— K A V I N (@Hitmankavin) February 19, 2022

Congratulation #RohithSharma for becoming a test captain as u re captaining in 3 formats,So all the best for Wt20,World cup and Wtc!! pic.twitter.com/lXOtQcIq06

— Dhruv (@Dhruvdm2Dm) February 19, 2022

From getting dropped in Tests to Test Captain of India, Rohit Sharma's rise in test cricket has been an inspiration for Many Cricketers…♥️
'Indias All Format Captain'
RohiT GuruNath SharMa ?#RohithSharma #Captain #CricketTwitter pic.twitter.com/0orSgWXvnT

— Msdian07 (@advait_anjankar) February 19, 2022

BCCI announced Rohit sharma as a test captain of team india ?? #BCCI #RohitSharma #RohithSharma #rohitsharmatestcaptain pic.twitter.com/t5U6zdLvRS

— Bhavesh Mali (@bhavesh2742) February 19, 2022

BCCI announced Rohit sharma as a test captain of team india ?? #BCCI #RohitSharma #RohithSharma #rohitsharmatestcaptain pic.twitter.com/5Ntbu9q8id

— Ｓｕｍａｎ Ｓｈａｒｍａ❤️ (@mr_suman45) February 19, 2022

India's Test Captain ?
Rohit Gurunath Sharma ♥️#INDvSL #RohithSharma pic.twitter.com/pIT5qbjItU

— Msdian07 (@advait_anjankar) February 19, 2022

Rohit Sharma Announced as India Red Ball Captain for Sri Lankan Series starting from March first week.

Pic credits : BCCI #IndianCricketTeam #IndianTeam #IndvsSL #IndiavsSriLanka #Testmatch #Redball #RohitSharma #RohithSharma pic.twitter.com/delSI6yGgH

— Alliplupdates (@alliplupdates) February 19, 2022

Rohit Sharma is captain only for now. BCCI had to "request" Rohit to take charge because KL is unavailable.

I've said this before, will say it again: Rohit's focus is World Cups. He's determined to bring home at least one ICC Trophy.

Test cricket drives him. Not Test captaincy.

— KSR (@KShriniwasRao) February 19, 2022

Chetan Sharma confirms that "Rohit Sharma was the clear choice of Test captain of Indian team".

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) February 19, 2022

The India National Cricket Team will be taking on Sri Lanka in a three-match T20I series and a two-match Test series. The T20I series will commence from February 24 and the first game will be played in Lucknow followed by the last two games at Dharamshala. The Test series will begin from March 04 and the two Tests will be played in Mohali and Bangalore respectively.