‘He has been the most selfless Indian cricketer’ – Simon Doull on Rohit Sharma’s captaincy since ODI World Cup 2023

Former New Zealand bowler and renowned commentator Simon Doull recently talked about the selflessness of Rohit Sharma over the past few months. The Kiwi pacer discussed that Rohit Sharma has made a lot of sacrifices selflessly while keeping the best interest of the Indian cricket team.

Doull talked about how Rohit Sharma played the role of an attacking batsman at the top order during the ODI World Cup 2023 so that the middle-order batter could play at their base and take the game forward, which cost him his wicket quite a few times and restricted him from making huge milestones.  Rohit Sharma will be next seen leading the Indian team in the test series against Australia. 

Simon Doull on Rohit Sharma’s selfless Cricket game 

“It will be about tempering his game a little bit. The one thing I have observed about Rohit Sharma in the last 10-18 months is that he has probably been the most selfless Indian cricketer I have seen in a long, long time. He has done everything he possibly could for his team to win. He made this team, he played in a certain way to allow the others in the team to be able to play the way they play, in white-ball cricket in particular,” said Doull.

“In the World Cup, we saw that he set the tone at the top of the order, which allowed the middle order to play the way they played. So, it’s a slight change for him, not too much. I still want him to be that aggressive Rohit Sharma. We do see it in Test matches.”

“The captaincy thing. He is getting really better. He has become a very, very good captain. He was always a very good white-ball captain, but I think he has become a slightly more aggressive red-ball captain. I am looking forward to seeing more of that through this series,” said Doull.

India’s Test Squad for tour of South Africa 2023 

Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah (vice-capt), Prasidh Krishna.