Will Hitman of Cricket be able to make a comeback again?
The world knows Rohit Sharma, the captain of the ODI and Test team of the Indian cricket team, as Hitman. Rohit got this title when he played the biggest ODI innings of 264 runs against Sri Lanka in the year 2013. Rohit Sharma has scored 3 double centuries in ODI cricket. His biggest specialty is that whenever he scores a century, the world starts expecting 200 and 300 runs directly. He scored 19,398 international runs including 48/100s & 107/50s.
His T20I & ODI stats are far better than his test stats. He is the leading run scorer in T20I whereas everyone knows about his ODI form. He has almost 11,000 runs in ODIs but in tests, he made 4,301 runs in 116 innings. Especially since the Bangladesh series, his bat has been completely silent till now.
He became the full-time captain of India in the year 2021. Under his captaincy, India won the T20 World Cup of the year 2024. While India reached the 2023 World Cup final undefeated. Apart from this, India also reached the final of the 2023 World Test Championship under Rohit's captaincy. But after winning the World Cup in the year 2024, it seems as if the magic of Rohit's captaincy has been lost somewhere. Under his captaincy, India lost 2–0 in the ODI series against Sri Lanka. Then they lost the home Test series against New Zealand by 3–0, and recently they lost the Test series against Australia by 3–1. Now fans are criticizing him a lot. There is even a demand to remove him from captaincy.
The biggest problem is that his bat is completely silent at this time. He flopped badly in the Bangladesh, New Zealand and Australia series that took place after the World Cup. He even had to drop himself from the team. Rohit Sharma is now looking to get back his form. The Indian team is known for its comeback. 2 years earlier, when India lost the 2022 Asia Cup and 2022 World Cup, then the Indian team made a great comeback against Pakistan in Asia Cup 2023 and Rohit was the first man to change his approach. Once again Rohit is facing the same problem, the team's morale is down. Now India will play against England and then upcoming matches in the ICC Champions Trophy.
So will the Hitman be able to make a comeback once again by showing a new path to his team?