This player replaced Rohit Sharma and became the permanent opener of the Indian team, scoring 27 centuries in first-class
Abhimanyu Easwaran can replace Rohit Sharma: Abhimanyu Easwaran, who has scored a lot of runs in domestic cricket, can get a place as a permanent opener in the Test team in place of Rohit Ji. Easwaran is also a part of this Indian team that went on Australia tour. He has been included in the 18-member team as a backup opener.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma has not being playing for a long time which is why he won't be playing in the Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT). The situation is so bad that in this series, he has not been able to cross the double-digit mark even once. In such a situation, it is being speculated that Rohit may soon announce his retirement from Test cricket. The fifth Test to be played in Sydney from January 3 may be the last Test of his career.
In such a situation, Abhimanyu Easwaran, who has scored a lot of runs in domestic cricket, can get a place in the Test team as a permanent opener in place of Rohit. Easwaran is also a part of this Indian team that went on an Australia tour. He has been included in the 18-member team as a backup opener. This young batsman from Bengal has been continuously proving himself in domestic cricket. Even before this, Easwaran has been given a place in the Indian squad many times. However, he could not make his Test debut. But after Rohit's retirement, he can be given a chance.
Coming to first-class cricket, Easwaran has scored 7674 runs in 173 innings of 101 matches so far at an average of 48.87, with 29 half-centuries and 27 centuries under his name. His highest score has been 233 runs.
Easwaran's List A career is also immensely strong. He has scored 3847 runs in 86 innings of 88 matches while maintaining an average of 47.49 in List A cricket. During this, his strike rate has been 82.78. Here, Ishwaran has 23 half-centuries and 9 centuries to his name. His highest score in this format is 149* runs.
On the other hand, if we take a glimpse at Rohit's form, Rohit has so far played three matches in this series being played against Australia. He has scored only 31 runs at a shameful average of 6.2 in his five innings. It is pertinent to mention here that Rohit joined the Indian team in the Adelaide Test. In this Test, he was dismissed after scoring three runs in 23 balls and six runs in 26 balls. Rohit also decided to bat in the middle order in the third Test. Here he was dismissed after scoring 10 runs. Rohit's performance has been poor this year and so far this year he has scored 609 runs in 25 innings at an average of 24.36. Going into the Australia tour, Rohit had made just 91 runs in three home Tests against New Zealand.
