Promoting Rohit Sharma to the opening position in the batting order
Rohit Sharma is serving the national team since June 2007. Though he impressed with his batting skills as a middle-order batsman at a very early moment, his inconsistent forms were playing the barrier role of his cricket future.
However, slowly, the Indian captain MS Dhoni tested him in the upper batting order. But finally, in June 2009, Dhoni first time sent him to the opening batting position in T20I cricket. The Indian captain first time followed it only during the ICC World T20 2009 when injured Virender Sehwag was ruled out from that entire tournament.
Later in January 2011, during the South Africa tour, Rohit opened in three successive ODIs, but it didn’t work well at that time.
Finally, in early 2013, Dhoni again tested him as an ODI opener, and from that time, Rohit evolved as one of the greatest openers in international cricket history. He impressed in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013, and the incredible story moves continue.
After becoming a regular opener in the limited-overs cricket, Rohit hit three ODI double centuries and four T20I centuries. As an opener, Rohit finished as the most run-scorer in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 (648 runs).
Recently, in 2019/20 season, Rohit was promoted to the opening batting position in the Test cricket too. While he was still struggling in the Test cricket, he once again performed impressively as a Test opening batsman. In a very short time, he has secured his spot as a Test batting opener too.