WTC 2025 Final: Here's How India's Test XI Might Look If BCCI Axe Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli

WTC 2025 Final: Rohit Sharma and Co. have suffered a shocking series defeat in ir home conditions against New Zealand. This is India's first home series loss in 12 years and also very time that India have lost a three-match home Test series. Kiwis have exposed Indian batters. India's inability to play both seam and spin has been baffling and re has been a lot of ise around Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli 's current form and ir future.

magnitude of loss has been so big that former India cricketers have also questioned team's intent and ir preparations. Sachin Tendulkar who rarely speaks out on issues called out for an introspection. Both Rohit and Virat couldn't even surpass 100-run mark in ir six innings and this has been concerning. doors have virtually shut for India as far as World Test Championship (WTC) is concerned. In order to qualify for WTC Finals, Indian team has to win four Test matches out of five that y play in Australia later this year.

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly called a meeting to analyse shocking series defeat and future of senior players such as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. re are also reports that senior players might be phased out if India fail to qualify for World Test Championship Finals.

Here's How India's Test XI Might Look After Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin

openers: Rohit Sharma, current captain of Indian team has been designated opener of team across all formats. Rohit might miss Border-Gavaskar Trophy opener due to personal reasons. India youngster Abhimanyu Easwaran has been included in Indian squad for Border-Gavaskar Trophy. If Easwaran performs well and if Rohit Sharma decides to call it quits, Easwaran might very well continue to open innings with Yashasvi Jaiswal.

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number three: Shubman Gill has been India's designated number three for quite sometime w and has grown from strength to strength. Gill has been Pujara's perfect successor and has bailed out India on numerous occasions. Shubman Gill looks like perfect choice to play at number three spot for India in Tests.

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India's number four and five: number four spot has been dominated by Virat Kohli for many years w. Kohli's cricketing predecessor Sachin Tendulkar too batted on same spot and Virat has justified slot with his performance over years. But Kohli is at fag end of his career and his stay in Indian team might be limited, but if he is to be phased out, n KL Rahul is somebody who can make spot his own considering that he performs well. As far as number five spot goes, re is debate about Rishabh Pant playing re, who also is India's designated wicketkeeper.

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Lower middle order: re will be a fist fight between Dhruv Jurel and Sarfaraz Khan. Both Jurel and Sarfaraz have got very limited opportunities and still have a very long way to go, but one of m certainly will grab number six spot in long run. As far as number seven spot is concerned, it might very well be acquired by Washington Sundar once Ravichandran Ashwin leaves.

bowlers: This department looks more or less sorted. If Ravindra Jadeja too leaves, Kuldeep Yadav might replace him in XI. But apart from him, likes of Jasprit Bumrah , Md. Siraj and Akash Deep form a very strong bowling attack.

Abhimanyu Easwaran, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel / Sarfaraz Khan, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah (c), Mohammed Siraj and Akash Deep

Is Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli Era Ending?

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are under scanner due to ir dismal batting performances. Earlier this year, both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli had missed Duleep Trophy and y are w being criticized for this. Rohit and Virat retired from T20Is this year after India won World T20 and understandably y are ain fag ends of ir illustrious career.