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Rohit Sharma could score only 31 runs at an average of 6.2 in 3 tests of Border Gavaskar Trophy.
The toss in the Sydney Test proved the media reports correct throughout the day on Thursday. Jasprit Bumrah arrived for India’s toss wearing a blazer. That means captain Rohit Sharma dropped himself, he is not playing the fifth test. Shubman Gill got a chance in his place.
How much will Rohit’s dropping himself benefit Team India? This will be known only after the test match is over, but it has been seen many times in the history of cricket, when the captain has dropped himself in the middle of a series or tournament.
In 2014, Sri Lanka had won the T-20 World Cup after dropping its captain Dinesh Chandimal. In the same year, MS Dhoni retired from Test after the third match in Australia. In his place, Virat Kohli became the Test captain, who proved to be the best Test captain of the team.
Know about those captains in the story who due to poor form Dropped himself from the playing-11 or took retirement…
1. Mike Dennis: Dropped out due to poor form
Mike Dennis played 28 Tests and 12 ODIs for England.
England captain Mike Denness ruled himself out of the fourth Test in the 1974 Ashes series. The team lost the first two Tests against Australia, while the third Test was a draw. Tony Greig became captain, but the team lost the match. Dennis became a part of the playing-11 as a player in the fifth test, the team won the match, but the series went to Australia 4-1.
2. Brendon McCullum: Retired after loss to Australia
Brendon McCullum scored a century in 54 balls in his last test.
Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum took retirement after the home defeat against Australia in 2016. Australia defeated the team by an innings and 52 runs in the first Test held in Wellington. McCullum was also struggling with poor form, he said before the second Test that this would be his last match. He did score 145 runs, but the team lost.
3. Pauly Umrigar: The first Indian captain to drop himself
Polly Umrigar played 59 tests for India.
Rohit Sharma became the second captain of India to exclude himself from the playing-11 in Test. Before him, in 1958, Pauly Umrigar had left the captaincy just before the match against West Indies. He was angry that BCCI President Ratibhai Patel had put pressure on Gujarat’s Jasu Patel to be included in the playing-11.
2014 3 captains kept themselves out of playing-11…
1. Dinesh Chandimal: Sri Lanka won the T-20 World Cup
Sri Lanka won the 2014 T20 World Cup after Dinesh Chandimal left the captaincy.
Sri Lanka made it to the 2007 and 2011 ODI World Cup finals and the 2009 and 2012 T20 World Cup finals. But every time the team remained runner-up. Dinesh Chandimal became the captain in the 2014 T-20 World Cup. However, he was out of form in this format.
Chandimal was banned for one match due to slow over rate, he could not play the last match of the league against New Zealand. Lasith Malinga got the captaincy, but the team could score only 119 runs. Despite this the team won the match by 59 runs. Chandimal dropped himself from the semi-finals. The team came under the captaincy of Malinga, defeated teams like West Indies and India and also won the title.
2. MS Dhoni: India got the best test captain
MS Dhoni played 90 tests for India.
On 30 December 2014, MS Dhoni retired from Test cricket after the Melbourne Test between India and Australia was drawn. There was one match left in the series, here Virat Kohli got the captaincy. He drew the match in Sydney, but the team lost the series 2–0. Virat went on to become India’s best Test captain, winning 40 out of 68 Tests. These also included 7 victories in SENA countries.
3. Misbah Ul Haq: Dropped out due to poor form.
Misbah Ul Haq scored 11,132 international runs for Pakistan.
In 2014 itself, the Australian team went to UAE to play a series against Pakistan. Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq could only score 5, 3, 13, 36, 18, 0 and 15 runs. Due to poor form, he ruled himself out of the third ODI. This happened for the first time in the history of Pakistan cricket.
3 captains of IPL, who ruled themselves out…
1. Gautam Gambhir: Excluded himself due to poor form
Gautam Gambhir has won 2 IPLs under his captaincy.
In the last phase of his career, Gambhir became a part of Delhi Capitals. In 2018, the team also made him captain, but he could score only 85 runs in 6 matches. The team also lost 5 matches. He ruled himself out in the next match and Shreyas Iyer got the captaincy. Under the captaincy of Shreyas, the team made it to the 2020 finals. Under his captaincy, he has also made Kolkata the champion of 2024 IPL.
2. Ricky Ponting: Mumbai got the best captain when he was out.
Mumbai Indians won the IPL in 2013 as soon as Ricky Ponting left the captaincy.
In the 2013 IPL, Mumbai Indians made Australian legend Ricky Ponting the captain. Ponting could only score runs at an average of 10.4 in 6 matches, the team could also win only 3 matches. He left the captaincy and on 24 April 2013, 25 year old Rohit Sharma became the captain. Ponting was out of the playing-11, his move proved to be a game changer. Under the captaincy of Rohit, Mumbai team won the first IPL in the same year, later the team also won 4 more titles.
3. Daniel Vettori: When he excluded himself, Virat got the captaincy.
RCB played the 2011 IPL final under the captaincy of Daniel Vettori (right).
In 2011, New Zealand spin all-rounder Daniel Vettori was made the captain by RCB in place of Anil Kumble. The team was runner-up. In 2012, the team lost the first 2 matches, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers and Tillakaratne were the remaining 3 foreign players in the team. Muttiah Muralitharan was not getting a chance while Vettori was there. Vettori dropped himself here and Virat Kohli got the captaincy in IPL for the first time.