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 for the reason that IPL 2025 wrapped up in early June. Decided to play ODIs till the 2027 World Cup, Rohit is pushing himself within the nets and past.A contemporary video, now viral on social media, reveals the 38-year-old hitting the bottom at a Mumbai stadium.WATCH:Amid ongoing hypothesis about his worldwide future, Rohit climbed to No. 2 within the newest ICC ODI batting rankings launched on Wednesday. He leapfrogged Pakistan’s Babar Azam — who dropped to 3rd after a poor ODI sequence within the Caribbean — and now sits on 756 factors, simply behind India’s Check skipper Shubman Gill (784). Former captain Virat Kohli stays fourth with 736 factors.
Each Rohit and Kohli, who retired from Check cricket earlier this 12 months earlier than India’s England tour, have reiterated their dedication to the 50-over format. The 2 might return in October’s three-match ODI sequence in opposition to Australia, with coaching already underway.Rohit, one of many ODI format’s biggest alongside Kohli, reached his career-best 882 ranking factors throughout the 2019 World Cup, when he struck a file 5 centuries within the event. He and Kohli final featured in ODIs throughout India’s Champions Trophy triumph within the UAE earlier this 12 months.India presently have 5 batters inside the boys’s ODI prime 15 — Shreyas Iyer in eighth and KL Rahul in fifteenth be part of Gill, Rohit, and Kohli within the elite listing.