Rohit Sharma back on the area, gears up for ODI comeback – WATCH | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma is leaving no stone unturned in his bid for an ODI comeback. The veteran opener was first noticed coaching below former teammate and famend coach Abhishek Nayar, working exhausting to regain match health after a break from aggressive cricket since the IPL 2025 wrapped up in early June. Determined to play ODIs till the 2027 World Cup, Rohit is pushing himself in the nets and past.A contemporary video, now viral on social media, exhibits the 38-yr-previous hitting the floor at a Mumbai stadium.WATCH:Amid ongoing hypothesis about his worldwide future, Rohit climbed to No. 2 in the newest ICC ODI batting rankings launched on Wednesday. He leapfrogged Pakistan’s Babar Azam — who dropped to 3rd after a poor ODI sequence in the Caribbean — and now sits on 756 factors, simply behind India’s Test skipper Shubman Gill (784). Former captain Virat Kohli stays fourth with 736 factors.

Both Rohit and Kohli, who retired from Test cricket earlier this yr earlier than India’s England tour, have reiterated their dedication to the 50-over format. The two might return in October’s three-match ODI sequence towards Australia, with coaching already underway.

Rohit, one of the ODI format’s best alongside Kohli, reached his profession-finest 882 ranking factors throughout the 2019 World Cup, when he struck a file 5 centuries in the event. He and Kohli final featured in ODIs throughout India’s Champions Trophy triumph in the UAE earlier this yr.India at present have 5 batters inside the males’s ODI prime 15 — Shreyas Iyer in eighth and KL Rahul in fifteenth be part of Gill, Rohit, and Kohli in the elite record.