Rohit Sharma will not go to Australia before the Test series. The report revealed the reason

According to RevSportz, Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma will not travel to Australia with the rest of the team before the first game of the five-match Test series. The team is all set to leave for Australia in two batches on Sunday and Monday. However, as far as Rohit is concerned, nothing concrete has been confirmed yet. The report further states that Rohit is not traveling with the team due to “personal reasons”. Head coach Gautam Gambhir will address the media at a pre-departure press conference in Mumbai on Monday. The first test match against Australia will start from November 22 in Perth.

Earlier, Australian great Ricky Ponting had endorsed that if Rohit Sharma is unable to play in the opening Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Perth, then Jasprit will have the dual responsibility of leading the Indian pace attack as well as leading the team. Bumrah will have to play the role.

Ponting, however, said that captaincy would be “the toughest job” for the leading fast bowler.

Doubts remain over Rohit's availability in the first Test, which begins at the Optus Stadium from November 22, with the captain recently admitting that he was “not sure” about his participation.

Ponting said about Bumrah during the ICC Review podcast, “Yeah, that (captaincy) is probably the hardest thing for him. I think even when Pat Cummins became the Australian Test captain, there was always that question about him. “

“How much is he going to allow himself to bowl? Is he going to allow himself to bowl too much? Is he not going to allow himself to bowl enough? “But, an experienced guy like Jasprit will understand the times when he needs to. But there will be a need to bowl. Do the magic.” If Rohit is out of the game, the responsibility of leading the team will be on vice-captain Bumrah. Ponting said the 30-year-old has enough talent to handle the leadership duties while spearheading the Indian pace attack. have experience.

“In that Indian team, there is a lot of experience around them. And, I think, it is really important that you use the experience around you even when you are the captain, and ask appropriate questions at the right time because it Ponting said, no matter how much cricket we played, we would not always be right.

(With PTI inputs)