Indian Cricketer announces half retirement from the game
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ May 7,2025
38 year Indian Cricketer Rohit Sharma announces his retirement from Test Cricket but will play ODI format.
Rohit Sharma announced the decision on his Instagram story and made it clear that he will continue to play only the ODI format.
Rohit previously captained India in all three formats. After leading India to the victory at the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup, he announced his retirement from T20Is. He also led India to victory in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.
Indian Cricketer announces half retirement from the game. The decision brings an end to an 11-year career in the longest format, during which Rohit played 67 Tests, captaining 24 of them since taking over the reins of the team from Virat Kohli in 2022.
He has scored 4301 runs in 67 Tests with 12 hundreds and 18 half centuries at an average of 40.57. Rohit captained India to the World Test Championship final against Australia and save the last couple of indifferent series against New Zealand at home and the Border-Gavaskar series against Australia.
He has received two national honours, the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the prestigious Khel Ratna Award in 2020 by the Government of India. Under his captaincy, India won the 2018 Asia Cup and the 2023 Asia Cup,
