Sanjay Manjrekar on Rohit Sharma: Team India needs to repair a lot of things before the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, starting from November 22, at the Optus Stadium. India and Australia are both strong aspirants to win the World Test Championship 2025 (WTC 2025). Before that, former cricketer, now a cricket expert, Sanjay Manjrekar raises questions about India’s left-hand-right-hand batsmen combination strategy. During the ‘coach’ Gautam Gambhir era, it is now often seen shuffle in the batting order. Rohit Sharma-led Test side also did this during the ongoing test series against New Zealand. Does the left-hand-right-hand batsman strategy work? Sanjay Manjrekar raised this question. He said on ‘ESPNcricinfo’, “The move to have Sarfaraz Khan bat down the order and sending Washington Sundar above him because he is a left-hander, those kinds of things should not happen. It’s just bizarre. That’s one thing Rohit Sharma needs to be careful of.”
He further added, “It’s just bizarre. That’s one thing that Rohit Sharma needs to be careful of…the T20 thinking of matchups left hand-right hand combinations. I think he should just go by the overall quality and ability of players.”
India’s winning of Test matches has ended by New Zealand. Rohit Shamra led team India’s confidence has touched a new low against the visitors. New Zealand got a back-to-back easy win against the hosts in Bengaluru and Pune. The Kiwis have already grabbed the three match test series with a trailing 2-0 score line.
Team India has no chance to claim the series, but they can pile up the series with some sweet notes before flying to Australia for the Border Gavaskar Trophy, where India and Australia will lock horns with each other in five test matches, straiting from November 22. India’s last test match against New Zealand will be 1-5 November in Mumbai Wankhede Stadium. Captain Rohit Sharma and Coach Gautam Gambhir are likely to think about multiple changes in the playing XI for the remaining match of the ongoing series.