Rohit Sharma could only score 31 runs at an average of 6.2 in the 3 Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
The toss in the Sydney Test proved media reports correct throughout Thursday. Jasprit Bumrah arrived for India’s toss wearing a blazer. This means captain Rohit Sharma has let himself down, he will not play the fifth Test. Shubman Gill got a chance in his place.
How much will Rohit dropping out benefit Team India? This will only be known after the Test match is over, but it has been seen many times in cricket history, when the captain has let himself down in the middle of a series or tournament.
In 2014, Sri Lanka won the T20 World Cup after dropping captain Dinesh Chandimal. The same year, Mahendra Singh Dhoni retired from the Test after the third match in Australia. In his place, Virat Kohli became the Test captain, who turned out to be the best Test captain of the team.
Know these captains in history who because of bad form He withdrew from the eleven or retired…
1. Mike Dennis: Dropped Due to Poor Form
Mike Dennis played 28 Tests and 12 ODIs for England.
England captain Mike Dennis ruled himself out of the fourth Test of the 1974 Ashes series. The team lost the first two Tests against Australia, while the third Test was a draw. Tony Greig became captain, but the team lost the match. Dennis became part of the eleven as a player in the fifth test, the team won the match, but the series went to Australia 4-1.
2. Brendon McCullum: Retired after Australia loss
Brendon McCullum scored a century in 54 balls in his last Test.
Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum retired after the home defeat against Australia in 2016. Australia beat the team by an innings and 52 runs in the first Test held in Wellington. McCullum was also struggling with poor form, he declared before the second Test that it would be his last match. He scored 145 points, but the team lost.
3. Pauly Umrigar: The first Indian captain to drop out
Polly Umrigar played 59 Tests for India.
Rohit Sharma became the second Indian captain to rule out playing-11 in the Test. Before him, in 1958, Pauly Umrigar had left the captaincy just before the match against the West Indies. He was angry that BCCI president Ratibhai Patel had put pressure on Gujarat’s Jasu Patel to be included in the game-11.
In 2014, 3 captains stayed away from the 11…
1. Dinesh Chandimal: Sri Lanka won the T-20 World Cup
Sri Lanka won the 2014 T20 World Cup after Dinesh Chandimal stepped down as captain.
Sri Lanka reached the finals of the 2007 and 2011 ODI World Cup and the 2009 and 2012 T20 World Cup, but each time the team remained second. Dinesh Chandimal became captain in the T-20 World Cup 2014. However, he was not in good form in this format.
Chandimal was banned for one match due to slow pace and he was unable to play in the final match of the league against New Zealand. Lasith Malinga got the captaincy but the team could only score 119 runs. Despite this, the team won the match by 59 points. Chandimal bowed out of the semi-finals. The team came under the leadership of Malinga, beat teams like West Indies and India and also won the title.
2. MS Dhoni: India got the best Test captain
MS Dhoni has played 90 Tests for India.
On 30 December 2014, MS Dhoni retired from Test cricket after the Melbourne Test draw between India and Australia. There was one match left in the series, here Virat Kohli got the captaincy. He drew in Sydney, but the team lost the series 2-0. Virat became India’s best Test captain, winning 40 out of 68 Tests. These also included 7 wins in SENA countries.
3. Misbah Ul Haq: Dropped due to poor form.
Misbah Ul Haq has scored 11,132 international runs for Pakistan.
In 2014 itself, the Australian team traveled to the UAE to play a series against Pakistan. Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq could only score 5, 3, 13, 36, 18, 0 and 15 runs. Due to poor form, he ruled himself out of the third ODI. This happened for the first time in the history of Pakistan cricket.
3 IPL captains, who opted out…
1. Gautam Gambhir: Ruled out due to poor form
Gautam Gambhir has won 2 IPLs under his captaincy.
In the latter phase of his career, Gambhir became a member of Delhi Capitals. In 2018, the team also made him captain, but he could only score 85 points in 6 matches. The team also lost 5 matches. He was ruled out in the next match and Shreyas Iyer was given the captaincy. Under the leadership of Shreyas, the team reached the final of 2020. Under his captaincy, he also made Kolkata the champions of IPL 2024.
2. Ricky Ponting: Mumbai got the best captain when he was away.
Mumbai Indians won the IPL in 2013 as soon as Ricky Ponting left the captaincy.
In IPL 2013, Mumbai Indians named Australian legend Ricky Ponting as their captain. Ponting could only score points on average of 10.4 in 6 matches, the team could also win only 3 matches. He left the captaincy and on 24 April 2013, 25-year-old Rohit Sharma became captain. Ponting was left out of game-11, his decision proved to be a game-changer. Under the leadership of Rohit, the Mumbai team won the first IPL in the same year, later the team also won 4 more titles.
3. Daniel Vettori: When he opted out, Virat got the captaincy.
RCB played in the final of IPL 2011 under the captaincy of Daniel Vettori (right).
In 2011, New Zealand all-rounder Daniel Vettori was named captain of RCB in place of Anil Kumble. The team was finalist. In 2012, the team lost its first two matches; Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers and Tillakaratne were the three remaining foreign players in the team. Muttiah Muralitharan had no chance while Vettori was there. Vettori filed here and Virat Kohli got the captaincy in IPL for the first time.
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India-Australia 5th Test: Bumrah is captain of the Indian team.
The 5th and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. India won the toss and decided to bat. Jasprit Bumrah is captaining the Indian team in place of Rohit Sharma.