WTC 2025: Rohit Sharma Becomes Only The Second Captain In Cricket History To Grab 'Unwanted Record'

WTC 2025 Final: IND vs NZ three-match Test series ended up to be a horrific one for Indian Test team. New Zealand accomplished a herculean task of beating India in India and handed Rohit Sharma 's men a series defeat of 3-0. Tom Latham's New Zealand badly exposed India's ability to play both seam and spin. series opener in Bengaluru had a seaming wicket and next two Test matches in Pune and Mumbai had turning tracks. India's batting crumbled like a pack of cards in all three Test matches.

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in particular have been in midst of storm. India's top two superstars looked lightyears away from ir best and couldn't even cross 100-run mark in series. After match, Rohit Sharma admitted that he couldn't live up to expectations both with bat and his captaincy. India's series loss against New Zealand has also resulted in Rohit Sharma registering an unwanted record as skipper of side.

Rohit Sharma' Horror Home Season

Rohit Sharma will look to completely forget his 2024 home season. Indian batting stalwart could amass only 133 runs from 10 innings and averd just 13.3. This is lowest aver for an Indian captain. This record was earlier held by Sunil Gavaskar who averd only 17.5 from eight games in 1984-85 season. But that's t all. Rohit Sharma's aver of 13.3 is second-lowest among all captains at home in Test cricket history.

Sharma is only behind English captain Nasser Hussain who averd only 10.22 in 2000 during England's home season. Hussain, as skipper of England scored only 92 runs from his 10 innings.

List of players having lowest home season avers

• Nasser Hussain: 92 runs from 10 innings at an aver of 10.22 in 2000
• Rohit Sharma: 133 runs from 10 innings at an aver of 13.3 in 2024
• Ricky Ponting: 113 runs from 8 innings at an aver of 16.14 in 2010
• rman Yardley: 150 runs from 9 innings at an aver of 16.66 in 1948
• Mark Taylor: 153 runs from 9 innings at an aver of 17 in 1996

India's WTC Final Qualification Hopes Dented

Before start of New Zealand series, India needed only 3 wins from ir remaining eight matches. But New Zealand series culminated into a horror show for Rohit Sharma and his men and after ir 3-0 series defeat, India w need 4 wins from ir remaining five games that y are scheduled to play against Australia, in Australia. Unfortunately, even if India win 4 matches, y are t guaranteed a berth in World Test Championship 2024 Final.