Throughout India’s ongoing Take a look at collection towards England, BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla addressed the hypothesis across the sudden Take a look at retirements of two of India’s modern-day greats, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Talking after the Indian males’s and ladies’s groups met King Charles III at St. James’s Palace in London on Tuesday, Shukla talked about that the choice to exit from red-ball cricket was totally private for each the batters.
Rohit and Virat introduced their Take a look at retirements only a month earlier than the five-match collection towards England. After a dismal 2024-25 season which India misplaced at house to New Zealand by a 3-0 margin and adopted by a loss within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, many criticised the Take a look at setup. Nonetheless, Shukla dismissed such claims.
“They’ve retired themselves. We are going to all the time miss them, they’re each nice batsmen, and the great factor for us is that they’re obtainable for ODIs,” he stated.
Regardless of their Take a look at retirement, Shukla confirmed that each Rohit and Virat stay within the scheme of issues for ODIs and concentrate on future tournaments just like the 2027 World Cup. In the meantime, younger captain Shubman Gill has taken over the management duties in red-ball cricket. India created historical past with a first-ever Take a look at win at Edgbaston below his captaincy, triggering talks a few doable change in ODI captaincy too. Nonetheless, Shukla selected to not touch upon the management situation.
It was a really historic event assembly King Charles: Shukla
Whereas India’s Take a look at gamers met King Charles III and Shukla, who was additionally current on the palace, Shukla described the occasion as historic. The King interacted with the cricketers, asking questions on current matches and even about pacer Akash Deep’s sister’s battle with most cancers.
“It was a really historic event that each our males’s and ladies’s groups had been invited at present by King Charles and met them very properly within the Palace. Gamers are very completely happy as a result of he requested all private particulars of every participant. He requested Saikia ji (BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia) and me about whether or not Arun Jaitley is my pal, what occurred to him, and after I instructed him that he had died, he requested me to pay condolences to his household. He additionally requested about Akash Deep’s sister’s sickness. He had came upon so many particulars. He gave the impression of a gentleman, and it didn’t appear we had been speaking to the King of England. There may be lots of humility in him and crew could be very completely happy to fulfill him,” he added
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