{"id":1319,"date":"2024-12-11T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewslive.com\/en\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:37:58","slug":"rohits-poor-batting-form-impacting-captaincy-say-former-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2024\/12\/11\/rohits-poor-batting-form-impacting-captaincy-say-former-teammates\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohit&#8217;s Poor Batting Form Impacting Captaincy, Say Former Teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rohit Sharma&#8217;s ongoing poor form with the bat is impacting his captaincy, according to former India teammates Harbhajan Singh and Cheteshwar Pujara. Rohit has only managed one half-century in his last 12 Test innings, which include eight single-digit scores. His struggles continued in the second Test in Adelaide, where he could only manage scores of three and six, even after moving to the middle order.<\/p><p>Former spinner Harbhajan Singh emphasized that a player&#8217;s performance on the field directly influences their decision-making as captain. &#8220;No matter how big a player is, they worry about their performance,&#8221; Singh said, adding that if Rohit starts scoring runs, his leadership could improve.<\/p><p>Pujara, who played a key role in India&#8217;s historic 2018-19 Test series win in Australia, agreed, stating that a captain&#8217;s form affects their leadership. He advised Rohit to focus on steadying his start and gradually building his innings, which could help him regain confidence and lead more proactively.<\/p><p>KL Rahul, who opened in the first two Tests, may move to the middle order, with Rohit expected to reclaim his opening spot alongside Yashasvi Jaiswal for the third Test in Brisbane.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohit Sharma&#8217;s ongoing poor form with the bat is impacting his captaincy, according to former India teammates Harbhajan Singh and Cheteshwar Pujara. Rohit has only managed one half-century in his last 12 Test innings, which include eight single-digit scores. His struggles continued in the second Test in Adelaide, where he could only manage scores of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}