“Marked Their Attendance And Left”: Ex-India Star Slams Rohit Sharma And Co For Skipping Ranji Trophy Spherical | Cricket Information

Whereas the return of India stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, amongst others, to the home circuit has grabbed the eyeballs of cricket specialists and followers alike, former India cricketer-turned-pundit Aakash Chopra has drawn out a significant speaking level. Chopra acknowledged that each one the senior gamers have performed just one Ranji recreation, as stars who performed within the first week of video games (from January 23) are skipping the second week (from January 30). Solely these India stars who missed the primary week video games are enjoying within the ongoing week.

Barring Ravindra Jadeja, all senior India regulars who performed within the January 23 video games are giving the continuing spherical a miss.

Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant are a few of the large names who participated within the January 23 ties, however are usually not enjoying any additional.

Chopra criticised this side, stating that this has made it seem to be enjoying in Ranji was a token punishment for the gamers.

“Virat Kohli is enjoying, however many others are usually not, like Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal or Shreyas Iyer. Finally, all of the gamers have performed their token Ranji Trophy match, marked their attendance and left,” Chopra stated, talking on his YouTube channel.

“Virat Kohli hadn’t performed that spherical, so he’s enjoying now.”

“What does it let you know? This (enjoying Ranji Trophy) was a little bit of a punishment posting. However enjoying first-class cricket should not be a punishment, it must be a privilege,” stated Chopra.

Following India’s 1-3 loss within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in opposition to Australia, the BCCI had applied a 10-point guideline, certainly one of which acknowledged that out there gamers should take part in home cricket.

Nonetheless, a lot of the India regulars have opted to play only one recreation.

Rohit, Jaiswal, Shreyas, Gill and Pant all misplaced their respective Ranji video games. Ravindra Jadeja, nonetheless, starred for Saurashtra and took dwelling the Participant of the Match award.