Team India is united, unselfish Rohit Sharma has rested himself: Jasprit Bumrah-OxBig News Network

India pacer Jasprit Bumrah came out as the captain in the final Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25 on Friday, January 3. Bumrah informed that the team’s skipper Rohit Sharma had taken the decision to rest himself amidst poor form.

Bumrah referred to Rohit Sharma as the team’s captain and said that the senior India batter had taken the unselfish decision to move away from the playing XI, so that in-form players get to play the final Test match of the series, as India look to win the final Test match of the series, to keep their World Test Championship Final dreams alive.

Bumrah stressed that the Indian team was united despite media reports claiming a rift between the senior members and differences of opinion between Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir.

“Yeah, the chat was pretty good. You know, we’re trying to keep the positives in mind and keep the learnings as well. Obviously, our captain, you know, has shown his leadership as well. He’s opted to rest in this game. So that shows that, you know, there’s a lot of unity in our team, there’s no selfishness that, you know, whatever is in the team’s best interest, we are looking to do that. Two changes, Rohit has rested, Akash Deep is injured and Prasidh Krishna is in,” Jasprit Bumrah said during the toss at the SCG.

India Playing XI at the SCG

Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah(c), Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj