After a disappointing series at home against New Zealand, the weak form of Rohit Sharma was revealed to the world when the poor performance in Australia came to light. There was speculation that he might be stripped of capitany on the England tour, but before Rohit shocked everyone by announcing his retirement from the test cricket format. At the same time, an interview of Rohit Sharma went viral, where he has questioned about the level of commentators and the comments relentlessly slipping into Indian cricket.
Rohit Sharma’s Views On The Commentary In India
“You guys are focused on creating controversy, on blowing up news. The quality of journalism has gone down. Earlier, conversations would revolve around cricket. Now, it’s all about getting views, likes, and making more people read your articles. Very little is written or spoken about the game itself. Tactics, analysis – it’s all missing,” Rohit told Vimal Kumar on his YouTube show.
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“When there’s a match on, we watch it on TV. But listen to how commentators speak these days. When we go to Australia, we hear their commentary and the difference in quality is vast. Here, it’s so disappointing – and I’m being very honest. It seems like they just want to single out a player and keep talking about him or her. It’s very disappointing.
“There are so many people who want to know about the game. Why do they need masala? They are true cricket lovers. I know there’s this belief nowadays that fans want masala, but there are also those who want to understand the game. For instance, they want to know why someone’s form has dipped, what he’s doing wrong. They want that insight. Don’t talk about personal stuff. Yes, you have a platform to speak, but that doesn’t mean you can say anything. Respect the players,” he added.
“If we lose, criticise us, no one has any objection to it. Like when we lost against New Zealand, it was justified to criticise. But there is a method to criticism. What is happening these days is agenda-driven criticism. There are people in India who really want to understand cricket and know its nuances, but commentary focuses only on gossip and the personal lives of players. Commentators also speak nonsense about the personal lives of players. If you have the right to speak, it does not mean that you can say anything.”
Rohit Sharma said – "If we lose, go ahead and criticize — who’s stopping you? You can criticize, like when we lost to New Zealand, so you have to right criticise. But there’s a way to criticize. But here in India, what we see nowadays is agenda-driven criticism, which is not good… pic.twitter.com/KExVaEGBCe
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Getting No Farewell Even After Having Legendary Test Career
The Indian ‘Hitman’ has guided India to win two ICC titles under his captaincy. In the Test format there has been 4301 ran for Rohit in 67 match out of which 12 are centuries. Here again, as the Captain of Team India Rohit fought many important matches as the captain of Team India in 24 games. Under his captaincy, Team India also made it to the finals of the 2023 World Test Championship but it did not win the championship. Even after having such a commendable performance the reason behind his retirement is said to be the outcome of the pressure from outside noise. Nevertheless, Rohit has still questioned the system with his statement. Where their personal lives and not their hard work are being discussed. Having both the coach and the captain identify the commentary as agenda-driven, then action is justified.
