Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli:

Since the T20 World Cup, many vicissitudes are being seen in the Indian team. Now it is being said that the team’s star batsman Rohit Sharma and former captain Virat Kohli will not be a part of Team India in T20 International. According to the report, Rohit and Virat will no longer be selected in the T20 team.

A few days ago, Team India’s head coach Rahul Dravid had said that now the team is being prepared for the next T20 World Cup. Since then speculations were being made that now both the batsmen will not be selected in the T20 team.

Senior players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be kept away from the T20 team. Recently, in the T20 series played against Sri Lanka, the young Indian team led by Hardik Pandya won the series 2-1 by performing brilliantly. Seeing this performance of the team, BCCI can take such tough decisions.

Haven’t shied away from T20 – Rohit Sharma

Amidst all these news, Rohit Sharma had said a big thing about his T20 International career in the press conference today. He had said that I have not decided to leave the T20 format yet. After this statement of Rohit, the discussions about T20 have intensified again. However, there is no official confirmation about the Indian T20 team yet.

T20 International career of both has been like this till now

Rohit Sharma has played a total of 148 T20 International matches in his career so far. In 140 innings of these matches, he has scored 3853 runs at an average of 31.32 and a strike rate of 139.24. In this, he has scored 4 centuries and 29 half-centuries.

Whereas Virat Kohli has played a total of 115 T20 International matches in his career so far. In 107 innings of these matches, he scored 4008 runs at an average of 52.73 and a strike rate of 137.96. In this, he has scored 1 century and 37 half-centuries.

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IND vs BAN: In the first ODI match played between India and Bangladesh, the Indian team got defeated by 1 wicket. India’s batting in this match was very average. Batting first, the team put just 186 runs on the board at the loss of 10 wickets in 41.2 overs. After electing to bat, Bangladesh chased down the target and won.

However, chasing runs was not easy for Bangladesh. There was a lot of excitement throughout the match. After the match, Indian captain Rohit Sharma told who is actually responsible for this defeat. He talked about the team’s batting to bowling.

184 Was not enough

Talking after the match, Rohit Sharma said, “It was a very close match. We did well to get back in that position. We didn’t bat well. 186 was not enough, but we bowled very well and towards the end they found the pulse. If you look back at how we bowled from the first ball – obviously we would have liked to have bowled better towards the end – but we bowled pretty well for 40 overs.”

‘We need to learn and understand’

He further said, “We did not have enough runs. 25-30 more runs could have helped. We were looking at 240-250 after 25 overs. It is difficult when you keep losing wickets. We need to learn and understand how to play on these kind of wickets. There is no excuse for us because we are used to these difficulties.

Mehdi hassan won

Bangladesh batsman Mehidy Hasan won the match. He played the match-winning innings for the team at the last moment. After the fall of 9 wickets, Mehdi Hasan played an inning of 38 runs in 39 balls to win the team. He was also awarded ‘Man of the Match’ for this innings.

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