{"id":172551,"date":"2025-06-10T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172551\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:06:12","slug":"roko-stop-that-former-india-cricketer-slams-clubbing-rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli-together-in-tests-says-absolutely-no-comparison-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172551\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;RoKo, stop that&#8217;: Former India cricketer slams clubbing Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli together in Tests; says &#8216;absolutely no comparison&#8217; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/121741520.jpg\" alt=\"'RoKo, stop that': Former India cricketer slams clubbing Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli together in Tests; says 'absolutely no comparison'\" title=\"Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma NEW DELHI: As Team India embarks on a new era in Test cricket without two of its biggest icons \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virat Kohli<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> \u2014 former cricketer <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sanjay-manjrekar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanjay Manjrekar<\/a> has sparked a debate by urging the cricketing community to stop treating the duo as equals in the red-ball format.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Reacting to new Test skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shubman-gill\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shubman Gill<\/a>\u2019s remark that he will feel the pressure of not having Kohli and Rohit in the England series, Manjrekar took to Instagram to share a candid assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Sanjay Manjrekar&#8217;s view that Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli should not be treated as equals in Test cricket?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt stirred up the bee in my bonnet, which has been there for a while. It&#8217;s not so much about the statement, but the fact that Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli tend to get clubbed together,\u201d he said.The former India batter asserted that while comparisons may be valid in white-ball cricket, Kohli and Rohit are in very different leagues in Test cricket. \u201cWe even have a term for them, RoKo. I can understand it in white-ball cricket\u2026 but when it comes to red-ball cricket, there\u2019s absolutely no comparison between the two,\u201d he added.Backing his stance with numbers, Manjrekar pointed to Kohli\u2019s dominant record in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia) countries. \u201cVirat Kohli has got 12 hundreds. Rohit Sharma in SENA countries \u2014 just the one, against England at The Oval in 2021. He&#8217;s played over 100 innings and averages 40.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will Rohit Sharma win 2027 World Cup? Astrologer Lobo predicts after getting Champions Trophy bang on!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I dare say, had he gone to England, that average would have dropped into the 30s,\u201d he said, before ending with a blunt punchline: \u201cSo, when it comes to red-ball cricket\u2026 I say, RoKo, stop that.\u201dManjrekar&#8217;s comments have reignited discussions on India&#8217;s red-ball legacy and the contrasting impact of two modern giants of Indian cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma NEW DELHI: As Team India embarks on a new era in Test cricket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,71687,46269,16384,13419,34926,79,31647,16,15,4221],"class_list":{"0":"post-172551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-india-national-cricket-team","10":"tag-india-vs-england","11":"tag-rohit-sharma","12":"tag-sanjay-manjrekar","13":"tag-shubman-gill","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-test-cricket","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-virat-kohli"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114658278735867730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}