Career summary |
Grouping | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 0 | 4s | 6s | |
v Australia | 7 | 7 | 1 | 139 | 66 | 23.16 | 206 | 67.47 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 
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v Bangladesh | 2 | 2 | 0 | 48 | 26 | 24.00 | 66 | 72.72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
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v England | 4 | 3 | 1 | 42 | 28 | 21.00 | 62 | 67.74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
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v Hong Kong | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11.00 | 29 | 37.93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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v Ireland | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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v Pakistan | 5 | 5 | 1 | 143 | 58 | 35.75 | 187 | 76.47 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
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v South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 8.00 | 9 | 88.88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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v Sri Lanka | 11 | 11 | 3 | 194 | 70* | 24.25 | 238 | 81.51 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 2 |
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There you go with the career summary of Rohit Sharma. An average of 24.37 in 31 games with an highest of 70 against Lanka. Damn he fails against Pakistan, Bangladesh and Hongkong too. And this is what we call talent and future Sachin Tendulkar ?
The context ? For the 5th ODI Gautam Gambhir has been replaced by Sharma. Dhoni has truck loads of confidence in Sharma. Unfortunately Dhoni is no Ganguly and Sharma is no Viru / Yuvraj / Kaif who would hit back in captain’s confidence with sparkling form. There is Virat Kohli who did a decent job in SL as opener and he is yet to get a game in this series.
Sharma finds a place in the team despite his bad form just cos he is young and then media, experts, bloggers bay for Dravid s blood for bad form just cos he is 35. Do you find any blogger baying in for Sharma except me ? Nobody J
The question is how long he is going to find place in the team and not perform ? Sachin Tendulkar on account of one failure in Bangalore ODI sparks debates on his ODI future. This dude who has got more money than Sachin Tendulkar had his age doesn’t even spark a question on his place in the team ? Attitude. That’s the key. Has Sharma got it ? Not really. Easy money from T20 and IPL heroics have got in his head and he has forgot that its ODIs and Tests that count more than T20 heroics. IPL would get him money which would move his family in Borivali(W) to a comfortable mansion, but then it won’t move him to the list of decent or good international batsmen.
What’s the use of talent if you don’t showcase it or even don’t let it speak ? How long is he going to be occupying a spot in the team and not perform ? He is encashing the 66 runs he made in 1st final against Australia in CB Series. Post that he has been as useless as a dead rubber.
Time to look elsewhere for a “young gun”
