‘Hitman’ suffers huge loss before India-Sri Lanka series

India’s Test and ODI captain Rohit Sharma is going to make a comeback in the series against Sri Lanka. He is on a break since the T20 World Cup held in America-West Indies. Team India won the T20 World Cup under the captaincy of Hitman. India was able to win any ICC trophy after 2013. Apart from this, Team India was able to win the T20 World Cup after 2007.

Suryakumar became the captain in place of Rohit

Rohit retired from T20 International after the T20 World Cup. Along with Hitman, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja also announced their retirement. Rohit will now play only in ODIs and Tests. Suryakumar Yadav has been given the captaincy in his place in T20. Surya has also captained Team India before. Hardik, who was the vice-captain in the T20 World Cup, did not get the captaincy.

Rohit suffers loss in ICC rankings

Rohit will return in the ODI series starting from August 2. He has suffered a big setback before the match against Sri Lanka. Hitman has suffered a loss in the ICC rankings. However, he has suffered this loss in the Test rankings.

He has come down one place. Rohit was earlier at the sixth position. Now he has slipped to the seventh position. Rohit has 751 rating points in his account. New Zealand’s Kane Williamson is at the first position in the rankings..

Rohit-Yashasvi and Virat in top-10

Rohit is India’s top batsman in Tests. There is no Indian player better than him in the rankings. Yashasvi Jaiswal comes after Rohit. He remains at the eighth position. There is no change in his ranking. Yashasvi has 740 rating points. Veteran batsman Virat Kohli is at number 10. He is at the bottom of the top-10 with 737 rating points.

Lucknow Press

‘Hitman’ suffers huge loss before India-Sri Lanka series

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