Legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar feels that Team India and Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma whose efficiency has just lately been underwhelming should take a break for some time. In the Chennai Super Kings match towards MI on Saturday, Rohit acquired dismissed for a duck within the second consecutive recreation.
Gavaskar believes Rohit’s confidence has been affected after a chronic run of poor scores within the IPL and he should put together for the upcoming World Test Championship (WTC) remaining towards Australia by taking a break from the T20 League.
“I would say that Rohit should maybe take a break for the time being, and keep himself fit for the World Test Championship final,” Gavaskar mentioned on Star Sports.
“He can come back again for the last few matches, but right now, (he should) take a little bit of a breather himself,” he added.
The WTC remaining is scheduled to be held on the Oval in London from June 7-11.
It was a forgettable outing for Team MI and the most important setback for them was the present type of their captain, who was dismissed throughout the powerplay for the eighth time this season.
“We had an off-day as a batting unit. We just did what we felt was comfortable (on him going down to 3), needed an Indian batter to bat in the middle overs against spin after unfortunately losing Tilak Varma, but we lost three wickets for just 16 runs,” Rohit mentioned after the match.
“Piyush Chawla bowling really well, the other bowlers need to rally around him, that’s what the team needs, everyone has to come forward and chip in contributions. There’s no such home advantage this season, everyone has won and lost at home, we need to do all three departments of the game, we’ll play at home in the next two games, and we’ll see how it goes,” he added.
