Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli
India vs Afghanistan T20I Series : Rohit Sharma will once again be seen captaining Team India in T20 International. Rohit Sharma has not played a single T20 match since the T20 World Cup 2022. But now he is making a comeback. Virat Kohli will also be seen playing T20 with him. What the fans were most waiting for for the series against Afghanistan was whether Rohit and Kohli would return or not. The answer to this has been found. But Rohit Sharma will have to find answers to three big questions before the next series.
Who will open with Rohit Sharma between Shubhman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal?
Rohit Sharma has returned as captain, so it is certain that he will open. But the question is about his partner. Both Shubhman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal have been given a chance in the team. But it is also certain that only one of the two will be able to play in the playing eleven. Although till now Shubman Gill has been paired with Rohit, but the kind of performance Yashasvi Jaiswal has shown in the recent times, his claim is also quite strong. Talking about Shubman Gill’s T20 statistics, he has so far scored 312 runs in 13 matches. Here his average is 26 and his strike rate is a little more than 145. Talking about Yashasvi Jaiswal, he has played 15 T20 International matches so far. He has 430 runs in his name. His average is 33.07 and strike rate is 159.25. That means both of them have played almost equal number of matches. In such a situation, Rohit Sharma will have to decide who should be given a chance in the playing eleven of the first match and who should be kept out.
Only one of Sanju Samson and Jitesh Sharma will be given a chance.
After this, the second big question before him will be that who among Jitesh Sharma and Sanju Samson should be given a chance. The selection committee of BCCI has kept both of them in the squad. Sanju Samson has played 24 T20 International matches for India so far and during this he has scored 374 runs with his bat. His average is 19.68 and strike rate is 133.57. Whereas Jitesh Sharma has still started playing. He has played only 7 matches for India so far and has scored 69 runs. His average is 13.80 and strike rate is 150. Captain Rohit Sharma will get a chance to play only one of these two. Both will not be able to play, this is also certain.
Rohit Sharma will have to take a decision regarding spinners also
The third decision that Rohit Sharma will have to take will be about bowling. There is not much suspense regarding fast bowling. But while Akshar Patel and Washington Sundar are there as spinners, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi have also been kept in the team. Axar Patel and Washington Sundar help in scoring runs with the ball as well as the bat, while Kuldeep Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi are pure bowlers. In such a situation, whether Rohit would like to enter the match with all-rounder spinners or he will have to decide only with the bowler. The Afghanistan team may be underestimated, but Rohit knows very well that any team can defeat anyone in T20. Also, Rohit would not want to lose in the last T20 International series just before the T20 World Cup, so he will enter the field with full strength. It remains to be seen which playing eleven Rohit Sharma announces when he comes out for the toss in the first match of the series against Afghanistan on January 11.
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