Not someone who threw in Towel ..: Ravi Shastri’s sly ‘if I was coach’ dig at gautam gambhir over Rohit Sharma’s retirement

Ravi Shastri Opened Up on Rohit Sharma’s Test Retirement | Courtesy – BCCI

Shastri Reveled He Had a Chat With Rohit Recently and Told Him that he was not pleased with his decision to sit out at the Sydney Test. The former head coach of the Indian revised that if he had he ben in charge of the team, he would have played the final test of the bgt despite his poor form.

For there universed, rohit took the unprecedented movie of sitting out the match despite being the capting the capting a nightmare series that Saw Him Score 31 Runs in Six innings.

Shasti Claimed that with India only 2-1 down in the series, the series was not over and rohit could have made the difference on a tough pitch in sydney.

“I saw rohit a lot at the toss. Never Not Played that Last Test Match.

“And i’m not someone who threw in the towel with the scoreline 2-1. IF your mindset is you feel you are… That’s not the stage, you leave a team,” said shastri to icid shastri to ICC review in a chat with Sanjana Ganeshana.

“That was a 30-40 run game. And that’s exactly what I told Him. The pitch was so spicy in sydney. Whatever kind of form he was in, he’s a match-winner. IF Hed GONE, SENSED GOON Condition and Smashed it for Even 35-40 at the Top, You Never Know. That series would have been leg.

“Other people have different styles. This would have been my style and i let him know it. It’s sitting in my heart for a long time. I have to get it out. And I Told Him that,” Shastri Added. ”

After Months of Speculation, Rohit Announced His Retirement from the Longest Format through an instagram story on may 8. India will have a new captain for the 2025-27 World Test Championship Cycle. Whill the bcci area yet to make an announsement, shubman gill is reported

Shastri was the head coach of the team during their Victories in the 2018-19 and 2020-21 BGT, which are also the only two instances of India winning a test series on Australian Soil in history.

Gambhir’s tenure as head coach has started on a history as they as they not only lost of three or more matches when they lost 3-0 to new zealand.