Gautam Gambhir: The coaching tenure of Rahul Dravid, who led Team India to the T20 World Cup title, has ended. After the end of Rahul Dravid's coaching tenure, there are speculations that Gautam Gambhir could become the next head coach of Team India. Team India's future head coach Gautam Gambhir has given many statements about the Indian team even before assuming his responsibility.

In one of those statements, Gautam Gambhir had said that senior players of Team India will not be given a chance in the 2027 World Cup. After which it is believed that Gautam Gambhir will not give a chance to Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in the World Cup 2027.

If you also want to know those 3 reasons why Gautam Gambhir can exclude Rohit-Virat before the World Cup 2027, then you should read the section given below.

Due to these 3 reasons, Rohit and Virat may not get a chance in the World Cup

The increasing age of both the legendary players

Rohit Sharma is now 37 years old, while Virat Kohli is also 36 years old now. In such a situation, it may prove difficult for both the legendary players to participate in the World Cup in 2027 for Team India. If Rohit Sharma participates in the World Cup 2027, then at that time Rohit's age will cross 40, while Virat Kohli will also cross the age of 39. In such a situation, playing in the World Cup 2027 may prove to be a difficult challenge for both these legendary players.

Bad form in Champions Trophy may cost us chances of World Cup

Gautam Gambhir has put a big condition in front of BCCI that if the performance of the senior players of Team India, which includes Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammad Shami, remains ordinary in the Champions Trophy 2025, then Gautam Gambhir can show the way out of the ODI format team to all these four players.

Gambhir wants to prepare the road map for World Cup 2027 soon

According to reports in the media, Gautam Gambhir has requested the BCCI to give him full right to select Team India.

According to him, he wants to prepare the road map for the World Cup 2027 as soon as possible. Due to which it is believed that Gautam Gambhir wants to keep veteran players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli out of the scheme of things of World Cup 2027 in advance.