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Indian captain Rohit Sharma announced his retirement from Tests also on Wednesday (May 7, 2025). Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced their retirement from Twenty20 international in 2024, immediately after India lifted their second T20 World Cup.
Rohit Sharma made a smashing Test debut against the West Indies at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens in 2013 with a sparkling 177. Rohit played 67 Tests, scored 4301 runs with an average of 40.57 and with 12 hundreds to boot. His last innings was at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 30, last year. The then Indian captain scored nine from 40 deliveries and succumbed to his rival counterpart Pat Cummins.
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Indian captain Rohit Sharma announces his retirement from Tests just after the Sydney Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, on May 7, 2025. File
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In June 2024, both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced their retirement from the Twenty20 internationals right after the Indian team lifted the Twenty20 World Cup after a gap of 17 years.
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Rohit Sharma is seen with the head coach Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli during a practice session. Rohit Sharma’s bad form continued in Australia also as he failed to score even a half-century in the three Tests he played.
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Captain Rohit Sharma is seen with his successor in Tests Jasprit Bumrah. Despite Rohit Sharma’s absence in the first Test at Perth, Jasprit Bumrah led from the front to beat Australia.
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Over his last 10 Test matches, Rohit Sharma scored a total of 120 runs across 10 Test match innings, averaging 12.0, with a highest score of 52. File
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In the Twenty20 internationals, Rohit Sharma has played 159 match scoring 4,231 runs at an average of 32.05 with five centuries to his credit.
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Having announced his retirement from Tests and Twenty20 internationals, Rohit Sharma is expected to continue playing One Day Internationals.
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Rohit has played 67 Tests, scored 4301 runs with an average of 40.57 and with 12 hundreds to boot.
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Having led Mumbai Indians to victory for five times, the Twenty20 2024 World Cup win will be etched in the mind of Rohit Sharma. Team India defeated South Africa to lift the title after a gap of 17 years.
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Rohit Sharma celebrates after scoring a century during the second Test against West Indies at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on November 15, 2013. He made 177 in his debut match Eden Gardens. Interestingly in the Test, Ravichandran Ashwin scored a magnificent 124.
Published – May 07, 2025 08:29 pm IST