AUS vs IND 5th Test: Jasprit Bumrah will open in place of Rohit Sharma
AUS vs IND 5th Test: The Indian cricket team will play the last match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 without its regular captain. Jasprit Bumrah will take over the command of the team in place of Rohit Sharma.
On Friday morning, when the Indian cricket team will play the last match of this tour in Sydney, a lot will be seen changed. The captain will change, the openers will change and the team's morale on the field will change. In this series, Rohit Sharma's poor form seemed to dominate his morale and confidence and its effect was visible on the team's spirits. Therefore, many such occasions were seen in this series, when the Indian players could have played well but this could not happen and the condition of the team has become such that after winning the first match, we have reached the verge of losing the series.
The Sydney venue is scheduled to host the series final. There are two changes anticipated to happen in this match. Whether Prasidh Krishna takes on playing responsibilities in place of Akashdeep then Shubman Gill makes way back into the playing 11. KL Rahul is also opening once again. Performing quite well in this series, Yashasvi Jaiswal is up the order to open alongside KL Rahul in Sydney. At one down, Shubman Gill will come in, and after two wickets fall, Virat Kohli will come to bat. This can be the last chance for poor-form-in-this-series wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant to prove himself.
While KL Rahul will open the batting instead of Rohit Sharma, that's a certainty. But we will have to wait and see as to what is changed with all this. Because KL Rahul's figures are worse in Tests than that of Rohit Sharma, if someone has to get replaced by Rohit Sharma, at this time this is a time to try a player who fits in the plan for a long time for the team. Rohit Sharma has scored 4302 runs in 110 innings of 67 Tests at an average of 41. During this time he has played 12 centuries, 1 double century, and 18 half-century innings.
On the other hand, if we look at KL Rahul's statistics, he looks worse than Rohit Sharma. KL Rahul has scored 3240 runs in 99 innings of 57 Tests at an average of just 34. Rahul's average is much worse than Rohit's. Apart from this, Rahul has only 8 centuries and no double centuries compared to Rohit's 12 centuries. Rahul has played 17 half-century innings.
