“Big loss in experience”: Former Indian cricketer react on Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma’s Exit “not performance”….

A former Indian cricketer, Sanjay Manjrekar, praised Shubman Gill and his young team for their remarkable performance against England in the fourth Test, particularly without iconic players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Just before the series began, both Rohit and Virat announced their retirement from the longest format after years of playing in it. The Indian team lost its wealth of experience and the sense of calm they brought to high-pressure situations despite their runs drying up in recent years, said Manjrekar.

“If you’re taking the Joe Root out of the side or taking two experienced players like India have had to retire recently, it would be a very, very different scenario. I think India have given a great account of themselves. They’ve kept the series alive, and it’s certainly interesting to see the mood in the bus on the England bus when it goes down to London compared to the Indian bus on the way down to London. As we see Shubman Gill here in a league of legends, as it said, and certainly has the opportunity to go to the top of that sort of leaderboard there, and I wouldn’t bet against it,” Sanjay Manjrekar said on JioStar.

In the ongoing Test series against England, Sanjay Manjrekar pointed out that while Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have struggled to score runs over the past year, their experience will be needed more than their batting.

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“Rohit Sharma was averaging 10 in the last two series that he played, and Virat Kohli was averaging 30 in the last five years. So they were perhaps not easy to replace, but it wasn’t like it was a huge loss. It was a loss of two very senior players, but not a loss of contribution, because they weren’t contributing as much,” he added.