By Karan Agrawal 
India’s T20 World Cup-winning captain Rohit Sharma is going through a lean patch since lifting the cup in June last year. The right-hander hasn’t had great outings with the bat after guiding India to its first ICC trophy after 11 years both as a captain and as a batter. It all started when India lost an ODI series against Sri Lanka after 27 years followed by a Test series loss at home for the first time since 2012 and losing the Border Gavaskar Trophy after 10 years.
The Struggle
The Indian captain who was being praised for winning the World Cup just a few months and is now finding it hard to find a place in the playing XI because of his poor returns with the bat in the last couple of series.
The Performance
If we talk about the recently concluded five-match Test series against Australia Rohit Sharma seemed like a walking wicket and was unable to score a single half-century in six innings of the three matches he played on the tour.
The Concern
Rohit’s lack of form is a major cause of concern for the team with only three matches to go before the 2025 Champions Trophy scheduled to take place in Pakistan and Dubai. Having said that a report in Dainik Jagran on Monday said that Rohit will continue to play international cricket till the Champions and the selectors will decide the future course of action after the eight-team tournament gets over “The possibility of Rohit going to England for five test matches is very less,” read the report.
The Meeting
Rohit was able to score just 164 runs in the recently concluded Border Gavaskar Trophy as a result of which he ‘opted out’ of the final Test in Sydney. The BCCI officials who had a review meeting after India’s below-par performance in the Test series highlighted the need for Rohit to decide about his future as an international player.
The Future
With age not on his side it is likely that the Champions Trophy might be Rohit’s last assignment as an international player given the fact that India will tour England after the Champions Trophy for a five-match Test series to begin a new cycle of the World Test Championship.