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For India, which is the premier cricket team in international cricket, it is common for the star players who play together for many years to get many victories with their best skills and play together for many years and their occasional cold war happens. While there was a lot of buzz about the rift between Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev at that time, at one point there were rumors that there was a rivalry within the Indian team between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who are considered to be the double-barreled guns of the Indian batting department in modern cricket.
There were rumors that there was a rift between the two especially as Virat Kohli never won a single trophy in the IPL but Rohit Sharma, who won 5 trophies as an assault while captaining the Indian team in all 3 formats, wanted to lead India in at least T20 matches. Especially during the 2019 World Cup held in England, it reached its peak and because of that there were reports that Virat Kohli would step down from the captaincy positions in 2021 and Rohit Sharma would take over as the new captain.
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But despite their constant denials, the Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma rift, as the saying goes, was true and after the 2019 World Cup semi-final defeat against New Zealand, head coach Ravi Shastri called the duo and mended them directly, former fielding coach R Sridhar recently revealed in his autobiography. What was reported in the book created a sensation among the fans.
In this case, Shikhar Dhawan, who is celebrated as Mr. ICC by the fans as a top-order batsman who blasted the opponents along with Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in white-ball cricket from 2013 to 2019, has confirmed it again. That is, it is true that there was an ego problem between Virat and Rohit at some point and he said this in a recent interview, without mentioning his name.
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“It is normal for humans to have some ego problems. We play together for almost 220 days especially for India. So sometimes it is normal to have misunderstandings with some people. That goes for us too. I am not talking about Rohit or Virat here. Generally speaking. In particular, we will have a total of 40 people in the Indian team, including coaches, assistant coaches and the team manager.”
“Then if one does not have a happy impression of the other, some quarrels may arise. This is normal. At the same time, when there is understanding between them, why shouldn’t the love for each other be greater? Earlier, R Sridhar had said that after Ravi Shastri requested that both of you should walk on the same path for the benefit of the Indian team, both Rohit and Virat started traveling on the same line.
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In that way, Shikhar Dhawan has said that even though there was an ego problem at one point, it eventually turned into love between them. Overall, the captaincy has now rested between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma due to ego problems.
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