Former Indian cricketer Kirti Azad said on Tuesday that if Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli don’t play together, the whole team will suffer. Rohit Sharma will miss the upcoming Test series against South Africa due to a hamstring injury and Virat Kohli’s participation in the ODI series is also unclear. Last week, Rohit was given the rights to the ODI and T20I formats. “If Rohit and Virat don’t play together then the whole team will suffer later, torment themselves first. One player will replace another. No one is indispensable. Many great players have gone. Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly. So they will suffer first if they don’t wear each other’s armbands,” Azad told ANI.
“Rohit is unwell and Kohli is not in the ODIs, two of your best players not being in either of your series are really serious for India. They are the mainstay of the polish. India and the board have to figure out where the problem is, If anything happens, instead of their member tweeting that there might be a rift on the side.It’s not good for the morale of the whole team. and South Africa are a good team, especially when you’re playing on a tough road. It’s completely different than playing anywhere in the world. The differences,” he added.
Azad’s comments come after the former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin on Tuesday tweeted that Kohli has “announced that he is not available for the ODI series” in South Africa. “Virat Kohli has announced that he is not in the ODI series and Rohit Sharma will not be in the upcoming test. There is no harm in taking a break but times must be better. This only proves for speculating abt d cracked. Abandoning another form of cricket,” he wrote in his tweet.
Virat Kohli has announced that he is not available for the ODI series and Rohit Sharma is unavailable after the upcoming test. There’s no harm in taking a break from the takin, but the timing has to be better. This just proves the abt d rift presumption. Will not give up d other forms of cricket.
– Mohammed Azharuddin (@azharflicks) December 14, 2021
Azad said he was surprised by Azharuddin’s tweet as the former India captain is part of BCCI as the president of Hyderabad Cricket Association.
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“I am really surprised because Azhar, a great player and former India captain, is also part of BCCI. He is the President of Hyderabad Cricket Association. So what is he saying? BCCI is speaking because once he spoke Azad spoke.
“This can lead to a lot of problems in BCCI and it can be nothing. So these are the kinds of unrelated statements that don’t have any content to them. I’ll call them that. It’s just speculation because if they don’t say the board will come out,” he added.
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