New Delhi: On one hand, for Team India and their fans, the dream of winning the Cricket World Cup (World Cup 2023) still remains a dream. This time after 12 years, Team India had made it to the finals. But now Australia has made the wait longer to win the trophy. Although captain Rohit Sharma and experienced Virat Kohli tried their best, but even after so much hard work they could not make the team champion.
In such a situation, perhaps this may prove to be the last chance for 36 year old Rohit and 35 year old Virat to win the World Cup. Now the next World Cup will be played in the year 2027 and it is possible that by then both Rohit and Virat will say goodbye to cricket.
By 2027 World Cup, Rohit will be 40 and Kohli will be 39 years old.
In fact, its best captain Rohit Sharma, who took Team India to the World Cup final after 12 years, is currently 36 and the powerful batsman Virat Kohli is 35 years old. But the 2027 World Cup will be held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. In such a situation, by the next World Cup, Rohit will be 39 and Kohli will be 38 years old. But if this tournament takes place between September and November, then Rohit would have been 40 and Kohli would have been 39 years old.
What do the statistics say?
In modern cricket, the oldest player of Team India was Sachin Tendulkar, who played his last international match at the age of 40 years and 204 days. Apart from him, Rahul Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni are the only two Indians among the batsmen, who continued playing regularly even after crossing the age of 38 years. Among bowlers, Ashish Nehra and Anil Kumble retired at the age of 38. However, it depends on the mental and physical condition of the players.
According to statistics, 180 players played all three formats of cricket for India, but only 5 players could play cricket till the age of more than 38 years. Among these, except Nehra, the remaining 4 players played more than 400 international matches and among the batsmen, all three played more than 500 matches.
It is difficult to play after 38 years
Nowadays players have a lot of options in cricket. In such a situation, it is very difficult for old and out of form players to stay in the team. Team India also had many great players like Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, but due to fitness and form, all of them were dropped from the team even before crossing the age of 38. Given.
For example, if we look at 37-year-old Shikhar Dhawan, he was India’s top run scorer in the 2013 and 2017 Champions Trophy as well as the 2015 World Cup, but with the arrival of 24-year-old Shubman Gill, he also had to vacate his opening position. Laid. In such a situation, if the form does not continue then something similar can happen with Rohit and Virat.
Records of Virat-Rohit in World Cup
Rohit Sharma played the ODI World Cup for the first time in 2015 and till now he has scored 7 centuries in 28 matches. He has 1575 runs in his name at an average of 60.57. In the T-20 World Cup, he has scored 963 runs in 39 matches. While Virat Kohli played the ODI World Cup for the first time in 2011, 22 year old Virat also lifted the cup with the team.
After this he participated in all ICC tournaments for Team India. Virat was the Player of the Tournament this time in the ODI World Cup and has now scored 1795 runs in 4 tournaments.