The sustained poor form of India’s Test and ODI skipper Rohit Sharma hurt India’s chances more than ever as India suffered a 3-0 whitewash in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series Down Under earlier this year. Besides the Australia series, India lost all six Test matches including the whitewash at home by New Zealand in 2024.

Sharma has managed to score only 31 runs across three Test matches. More recently, he went on to drop himself for the Sydney Test and finished the Australia series with 190 runs in nine innings. In fact, across his last three Test series, Sharma has averaged 10.50, 15.16 and 6.20.