Gambhir On Kohli-Rohit Playing 2027 ICC Cricket World Cup: 'Long Way Away...'

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Last Updated:May 23, 2025, 14:31 IST

Gautam Gambhir feels it is excessively aboriginal to accidental if Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma volition play successful the 2027 World Cup, and helium is choosing to absorption connected the T20 World Cup instead.

Gautam Gambhir with Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma during Team India grooming league (PTI)

Indian men’s cricket squad caput manager Gautam Gambhir said that the 2027 ICC Cricket World Cup is simply a agelong mode distant erstwhile asked astir the imaginable of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma making the team.

The elder brace precocious announced their status from Test cricket, having already called clip connected their T20 International career. One-Day Internationals are the lone format Kohli and Rohit are disposable to correspond India in.

Given the heartbreak of the past 50-over World Cup astatine location and the adjacent variation successful 2027, the thought of having the duo play was thrown astatine Gambhir. He said: “Look, it’s inactive a agelong mode away."

Gambhir added that helium is not reasoning that acold ahead, with his declaration arsenic India caput manager ending with that tournament.

“We inactive person a T20 World Cup earlier that, and that is again a immense tourney that is going to hap successful India, which is successful February-March. So the full absorption astatine the moment, aft England, volition beryllium connected the T20 World Cup, and November-December 2027 is inactive two-and-a-half years away," Gautam Gambhir told CNN-News18 successful an exclusive interview.

“And I’ve ever said 1 happening – if you support performing, property is conscionable a number," helium added.

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When asked astir Kohli and Rohit‘s telephone to discontinue from Tests, Gambhir said: “I think, erstwhile you commencement the crippled and erstwhile you privation to finish, it’s a precise idiosyncratic decision. No 1 has the right. Be it the coach, the selector, beryllium it anyone successful this state has immoderate close to archer idiosyncratic erstwhile to discontinue and erstwhile not to retire. So it comes from within."

“And yes, we’ve got to beryllium without 2 elder players, 2 truly experienced players. And sometimes I judge that it’s the accidental for immoderate different radical to enactment their manus up and say, ‘Okay, I’m acceptable for it.’ So yes, it volition beryllium tough, but past there’ll beryllium radical putting their manus up for definite due to the fact that this question was asked to maine before, for the Champions Trophy arsenic well. When Jasprit Bumrah wasn’t determination and I said precisely the aforesaid thing, idiosyncratic missing retired mightiness springiness different idiosyncratic an accidental to bash thing peculiar for the country. Hopefully, there’ll beryllium different guys waiting for that opportunity," helium said.

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