Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma and Sunil Gavaskar: Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, who have retired from Test and T20 for Team India, will now be seen playing only in ODI formats. In such a situation, former legendary player Sunil Gavaskar has claimed that both these World Cups will not be able to play for Team India till 2027.
On June 29, 2024, when India won the title by defeating South Africa in the T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja had said goodbye to T20 cricket. At that time, no one thought that within a year, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma would also say goodbye to Test cricket.
Rohit-Kohli said goodbye to Test cricket within five days
On May 7, 2025, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said goodbye to Test cricket, within 5 days, on 12 May 2025, Virat Kohli also said goodbye to Test cricket. Now both players will be seen playing only in ODI format for Team India. Meanwhile, Sunil Gavaskar has made such a claim about Rohit and Kohli’s ODI Future, which will not be good for the cricket fans to hear.
Sunal Gavaskar’s big claim on Rohit-Kohli
Sunil Gavaskar predicted Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s Test retirement and said that they do not think they would be part of Team India till the next ODI Cup. Let us tell you that the 2027 ODI World Cup is to be played in South Africa.
2027 ODI World Cup will not be able to play crying
Sunil Gavaskar said during a chat show that, “I honestly, I don’t think they (Kohli-Rohit) will be able to play till 2027. But do you know that within the next one or a half years, both the players show some brilliant performances, and if they keep scoring a century on a century, then even God can not out of the team.”
Team India lost in 2023 ODI World Cup
Let us tell you that under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, Team India played the final match as the 2023 ODI World Cup invincible, but in the final, Australia defeated the Indian team by 6 wickets and broke their dream of becoming the world winning. Kohli recently said during an event, now he has only one dream that he won the ODI Cup 2027, while Rohit Sharma considers the ODI Cup as the real World Cup.
