{"id":27850,"date":"2025-04-17T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27850\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:24:09","slug":"had-an-argument-with-coach-and-selector-tried-putting-team-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27850\/","title":{"rendered":"Had an argument with coach and selector, tried putting team first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rohit Sharma has revealed that he had an \u201cargument\u201d with Gautam Gambhir and chief selector Ajit Agarkar over his decision to sit out of the Sydney Test during Border-Gavaskar series in January this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to the coach and the selector, and they kind of agreed, not agreed, \u2026. there was an argument around it,\u201d Rohit told former Australian captain Michael Clarke during the Beyond23 Cricket podcast. This newspaper had reported then about how Rohit wasn\u2019t dropped, but had made the decision to opt out on his own.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had to be honest with myself. I wasn\u2019t hitting the ball well. I didn\u2019t want to put myself there only because we had dropped the other guys who were struggling as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe somehow wanted [Shubman] Gill to play, he\u2019s such a good player. He missed out in the previous Test match. I\u2019m like\u2026 okay, if I\u2019m not hitting the ball well, it is right now. Things can change five days later, ten days later,\u201d Rohit said. The Indian captain, who had missed the first Test due to paternity leave, had failed in subsequent Tests at Adelaide, Brisbane, and Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Rohit explained his rationale for sitting out of the Sydney Test. \u201cYou try and put the team first, you just look at what the team wants, and make the decision accordingly. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it may not. That\u2019s how it goes. Every decision you try and make, you aren\u2019t guaranteed success,\u201d said Rohit.<\/p>\n

Rohit also opened up on his decision to open in the penultimate Test in Melbourne, after batting in the middle-order to accommodate KL Rahul<\/a> as opener in the previous games.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u201dI didn\u2019t have a great game (in Adelaide). Then I went back to the room, and I was like, I should have opened, man. I would rather fail doing what I do and where I do it. That\u2019s my place, that\u2019s my position. I would rather go there and bat, whether I get success or not, it\u2019s a different story. But I\u2019m in my natural position for the team,\u201d he told Clarke.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u201dAnd I said, no. It\u2019s only one game. Let\u2019s not overthink, let\u2019s give it another game. It\u2019s 1-1. We can try and change things around in Brisbane. And then, it was a draw. When we got back to Melbourne, we changed our mind. I went back to open the innings.\u201d<\/p>\n

He shared his captaincy philosophy of putting the team first. \u201cSince I started captaining the national team, I just felt that not just me but the rest of the guys also need to think alike and put the team first, do what is necessary for the team, and not worry about my runs, my score and my hundred, my five wickets. Because it is important, you are playing team sport, if you get 100 and not cross the finishing line, what\u2019s the use?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma has revealed that he had an \u201cargument\u201d with Gautam Gambhir and chief selector Ajit Agarkar over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,5709,16791,16384,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-27850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-gautam-gambhir","10":"tag-michael-clarke","11":"tag-rohit-sharma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114354000083817663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850","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=27850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}