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Rohit Sharma keen on playing ‘A’-team series against Australia before tour Down Under

August 21, 2025
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Shamik Chakrabarty, Mumbai

Rohit Sharma is willing to play the unofficial ODI series between India A and Australia A in September-October as part of his preparations for the Australia tour, RevSportz understands. India’s ODI captain hasn’t played international cricket since the Champions Trophy in March, a tournament that India won. He hasn’t played any cricket after the IPL.

India will tour Australia for a white-ball series in October-November; three ODIs and five T20Is are part of the roster. The ODIs would be played in Perth, Adelaide and Sydney on October 19, 23 and 25. There’s a feeling in the Mumbai cricket circles that the tour could well be Rohit’s last as an international cricketer. The 38-year-old has already hung up his Test and T20I boots, and he reportedly doesn’t feature in the BCCI’s 2027 World Cup (50-over) plans.

Rohit has started individual training, but he doesn’t want to go to Australia undercooked, the precise reason he wants to play the ‘A’-team series in the lead-up. The three unofficial ODIs between India A and Australia A are scheduled on September 30, October 3 and 5 in Kanpur.

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Rohit Sharma at the WTC Final 2023 (PC: Debasis Sen)

Rohit’s international career has obviously entered the twilight zone. And yet, in the last ODI that India played, the Champions Trophy final, he was the Player of the Match, scoring a match-winning 76 off 83 balls against New Zealand. But Indian cricket has started to move in a new direction under head coach Gautam Gambhir, and Rohit would be 40 years old by the time the next ODI World Cup comes. The regeneration process in Tests started in the England tour, with an eye on the next World Test Championship final two years down the line. It is learnt that the ODI recalibration will begin in earnest after the Australia tour.

 

For a fact, nothing has been decided yet about the captaincy for the ODI series Down Under. Rohit is the incumbent skipper whose last assignment saw him win a coveted ICC Trophy. The selectors will start planning about the ODIs after the Asia Cup.

Rohit is one of the greatest batsmen in the history of 50-over cricket, with 11,168 runs from 273 matches, including 32 hundreds (three double tons). Such a glorious career deserves a fitting farewell.

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