Updated On: 05 February, 2022 09:02 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
India’s new white-ball skipper Rohit Sharma starts his full-time ODI tenure on Sunday as his team play the West Indies in their 1,000th ODI, the first side ever to reach the milestone

Ajit Agarkar and Rohit Sharma. Pics/Suresh Karkera, AFP
Former pacer Ajit Agarkar reckons the biggest challenge for India’s new white-ball skipper Rohit Sharma is to remain fit ahead of T20 and ODI World Cup scheduled over the next 24 months. Rohit was appointed skipper after Virat Kohli stepped down as captain from T20Is and was removed from the leadership role in ODIs.
“I think it’s a good thing and the right thing to do—to have one captain for white-ball format and now Rohit actually can fly,” Agrakar said on the Star Sports. With the T20 World Cup later this year in Australia and ODI World Cup next year looming large, Agarkar feels the captain should be present with the team, something he believes worked for former skippers Kohli and MS Dhoni.