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Will Virat Kohli- Rohit Sharma Ranji Trophy: Do Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have a future in Test cricket? This question was asked to head coach Gautam Gambhir. On this, Gambhir said, ‘It depends on them’. Gambhir also made it clear that he wants players playing Test cricket to take domestic cricket seriously and play Ranji Trophy if they are not committed to playing anywhere else. That is, one thing is clear that through gestures, head coach Gautam Gambhir has made it clear that Kohli and Rohit will have to play domestic cricket, especially red ball cricket. Many superstar cricketers of India have been away from the red ball format (first class cricket) of domestic cricket for a long time.

Virat Kohli last played domestic red ball cricket in 2012 (2 to 5 November), Rohit Sharma was seen playing in 2015 (7 to 10 November). Kohli played this match against UP in Ghaziabad, where he scored 14 and 43 runs in both the innings. Rohit was last seen playing a first class match against UP at Wankhede Stadium, where he played a brilliant inning of 113 runs.

In the last four years, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj and KL Rahul have played only four long format domestic matches in total. The figures themselves are telling everything. The key players of India’s Test team rarely play on home grounds, and the lack of practice playing red-ball matches is having an impact on international results.

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The Rohit Sharma-led Indian team surrendered the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) to Australia last Sunday after a decade. Earlier, Team India had to face 0-3 defeat against New Zealand at home. Due to these two setbacks, India missed playing the final of the World Test Championship.

Kohli scored 190 runs in 5 test matches of BGT at an average of 23.75. Whereas Rohit Sharma was in very bad condition with the bat. Rohit Sharma could score only 31 runs in 3 matches with an average of 6.20. Many veteran cricketers have also advised Rohit Sharma and Kohli to play domestic cricket.

Gavaskar said Gambhir needs to take strict steps
Since India’s star players avoid playing Test cricket at the domestic level, veteran cricketer and commentator Sunil Gavaskar also raised questions on this. Gavaskar had recently said that India’s regular players should represent their state in the longest format of the game. He said- The next round of Ranji Trophy is on 23rd January, let’s see how many players of this team play? If you do not play in those matches, then I say that Gautam Gambhir will have to take some tough decisions.

Jai Shah had warned, Shreyas-Ishaan suffered loss
In August last year, the then BCCI secretary Jay Shah had warned Team India players that if they gave priority to the T20 Indian Premier League (IPL) over domestic cricket, they would have to face ‘serious consequences’. He had then said in a letter to the contracted players that domestic cricket has always been the foundation of Indian cricket and it has never been underestimated in our approach to the game. After this, action was taken against Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan and they lost the central contract of BCCI.

Irfan Pathan gave example of Tendulkar
Speaking to Star Sports, former Indian player Irfan Pathan demanded ‘cultural change’ to solve this problem. He had said that we have to change the culture. The great Sachin Tendulkar also played Ranji Trophy when he didn’t need to, he did it because he wanted to spend more time on the pitch.

Team’s weaknesses visible in Border-Gavaskar Trophy
Recently, in the 3-1 defeat against Australia in BGT, one thing was clearly visible that the players of the Indian cricket team become weak in front of the ‘red ball’. Shot selection was careless, as a result Rishabh Pant was getting out repeatedly by playing risky strokes. The batsmen were making the same mistakes again and again.

Kohli was not able to play the balls outside the off-stump. The bowlers were not ready to bowl long spells. Siraj was often losing momentum and Harshit Rana was struggling to maintain the pace. Overall, there was a lack of acceptance of the Test nature among the players. Gill was seen trying to come out of the crease. Whereas Rohit Sharma was seen hitting strokes in the beginning of his innings.