ODI World Cup: Team India's best players Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma recently put an end to their T20 career after winning the T20 World Cup 2024. This was the second World Cup of Rohit Sharma's career, while this was the first T20 World Cup tournament of Virat Kohli's career. As soon as Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced their retirement, a campaign started on social media that now they should say goodbye to ODI cricket as well. But along with this, some people are claiming that they should still play for the Indian team till ODI World Cup 2027.

Rohit-Virat should play ODI World Cup till 2027

Team India will go through changes

At present, the performance of many players of Team India is not up to international standards and in such a situation, news is coming that the BCCI management can show these players the way out within a year or two. For this reason, the Indian management will try to back Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for the ODI World Cup 2027 so that they can strengthen the Indian team with their presence. For this reason, they are not going anywhere till the ODI World Cup 2027.

need senior players

Currently, there is no senior player in Team India other than Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli and in such a situation, if both these players are not with the Indian team, then Team India can be seen choking badly on important occasions. For this reason, many sports journalists have also said that, if we want to expect a great performance from the Indian team, then it is very important to have both these senior players in the ODI World Cup 2027 team.

South Africa has good statistics

Both Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have very impressive statistics on the African continent. That is why the experience of both these players will be helpful for the Indian team in the ODI World Cup 2027. On one hand, Rohit Sharma has scored 615 runs in 22 matches at an average of 32.26 while playing in the African continent. On the other hand, Virat Kohli has scored 1327 runs at an average of 87.38.