Former Indian Pacer Irfan Pathan left the allegations for showing excessive support in favor of Rohit Sharma after his disappointing look in the Border-Gavaskar Test series in Australia.
In 2024-25, India vs. Australia Border-Gavaskar Trophy was not the desired result for the Indian team, but further concerns were that there was a shortage of lack of their players.
Unlike the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, where India had shortcomings, but never seen on the back leg, BGT marked a thrashing of the pride of the heritage of India’s red ball.
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The Border-Gavaskar Trophy insult marked India’s exit from the 2025 WTC final race, as defending champions Australia and South Africa made it in the final of WTC 2025. This was the first time in three chakras when India missed the qualification for the ICC World Test Championship final.
Irfan Pathan withdraws from supporting Rohit Sharma
Former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan recently posted a video on Lallantop, claiming that Indian captain Rohit Sharma, whose form was largely suspicious during the series, was stripped of playing 11 from playing.
“Rohit Sharma is a wonderful player in white-ball cricket, but his average in Test cricket that year was 6, so we said that if he was not a captain, he would not take place in the team, and it is true,” Irifan Pathan said in a teaser video released by Lallantop on Wednesday.
Rohit Sharma decided to release himself from the Sydney Test, interviewed by Irfan Pathan and Jatin Sapru, where fans of ICT accused him of being unnecessarily humble towards the Indian captain and showed enmity not to directly criticize his presence in the Indian test team despite his poor appearance.
“People say that we have supported Rohit Sharma more than the requirement. Of course, when someone comes to interview your broadcast channel, you will not misbehave with him, okay? You have invited him, so you will behave politely,” Irfan Pathan said.
“When Rohit came to the interview, we were definitely, humble, and we had to show it, because he was our guest. So he was connected and said that we were supporting him, but we were supporting him, but it was us who said…
“If he was not the captain of the team, he would have been dropped,” Irfan Pathan concluded.
Rohit admitted that his respective form in Red-Ball cricket could be a major concern for India.
During the interview with the then Indian Red Ball captain, Rohit Sharma, Jatin Sapru and Irfan Pathan, he admitted to his former team partner that he was lacking for form and so he decided to leave himself, as the team’s opportunities were impressed by the inability to score runs, and the team needed more players.
“This is what I say. Stand down. I would say some words; fifty words will be excluded from it. So, runs are not coming from my bat, I am not an important match, we need players, and boys are not in our batting boys form, so you can not take a lot of out-of-form players in the team.”
After winning the ICC T20 World Cup, Sharma scored just 164 runs in 8 Tests in 2024, and insulted 6.20 in three matches played against Australians in BGT.
“It was difficult for me to take this decision, but if everything is placed in front of us, this decision was wise, and I would not think much further. What the team needed at this time was the only idea, and there was no other idea,” Rohit said.
Rohit ends his Test career in May 2025
After a lot of criticism and emphasis with Indian media, enthusiasts, cricket pundits and Indian cricket fans, Rohit Sharma decided to take a step as an Indian Test captain and attract the curtain for his illustrated career.
Rohit did not play the last Sydney Test in Australia, but did not compromise with retirement plans, as he scored with white-ball cricket and scored the top runs to lead India to victory in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.
He made his test retirement officer during the IPL 2025 campaign for Mumbai Indians, and after his decision, Indian veteran Virat Kohli, who took a dip in his lowest in red-ball cricket.
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