“One Bad Series Can Happen”- Ravichandran Ashwin Backs Rohit Sharma Amid Retirement Buzz

Rohit Sharma Retirement Saga: Amid the tug-of-war surrounding Rohit Sharma’s future in the Indian team, former cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin questioned the timing of the debate over Rohit Sharma’s future. Ashwin said that if the selectors wanted to move on from the veteran duo of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli ahead of the ODI World Cup 2027, they should have communicated their decision much earlier.

According to several reports, Rohit was out of BCCI’s plans for the World Cup but the board clarified that the match on Sunday will not be Rohit’s last. Ashwin pointed out that India still needs the experience of Rohit and Virat for the upcoming tour of South Africa and urged the BCCI not to let any kind of uncertainty prevail.

“I am thinking we are going to South Africa in September and October. Do we need Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma? If you ask me, I will say we need that experience. I know Yashasvi Jaiswal is pushing hard from behind, but if you ever felt as a selector, coach or captain that we don’t want these players in the 2027 World Cup, then you could have communicated that at the end of the Champions Trophy,” Ravichandran Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.

Ravichandran Ashwin Stresses On Proper Communication

The former Indian offie added that the BCCI erred in providing proper communication to Rohit Sharma while dealing with his future.

“If you go to a player and tell him that we want to move on from you, no player will like that. Even when the coach came and communicated with me in Australia that they wanted to look past me, I accepted it. One bad series can happen to any player, but you have to communicate with the player,” he added.

The timing of the discussion was also questioned by Ashwin, who argued that if a transition was indeed being planned, it should have been initiated much earlier rather than less than a year before the 2027 ODI World Cup.