Rohit Sharma’s numbers and records in Test cricket

Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma announced his sudden retirement from Test cricket on Wednesday, May 7, in a post on his official Instagram account. The 38-year-old had already announced retirement from T20Is last year after leading India to the T20 World Cup 2024 title, and with that, he is now available to play for the national team in just the ODI format, in which he still captains the side.

While the retirement of Rohit Sharma from the longest format of the game is sudden, it doesn’t quite come as a surprise after his dismal showing with the bat and as captain over the past few months. After India lost their first home Test series in more than a decade, going down 0-3 in three matches under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy last year, the tour to Australia was just as tough for him, losing the five-match Test series 1-3 down under.

But regardless, Rohit Sharma had a fabulous Test career, which began back in 2013 in a match against West Indies at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, and he marked it with a hundred before replicating the same feat in his second Test at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In the overseas Tests at the start of his career, he struggled a lot with the bat, which meant that the selectors dropped him from the playing XI time and again.

Below are the numbers of Rohit Sharma in Test cricket:

The lack of consistent performances in Test cricket for India from 2014 to 2018 didn’t deter Rohit Sharma, and he managed to put the tough times behind by making the opening spot his own in the last six years in the format. The runs flowed from his bat in all conditions and against all attacks, including his first overseas Test hundred against England at The Oval in London in 2021 after scoring a series-defining century versus the same opposition earlier in the same year at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

While the Test career of Rohit Sharma didn’t end on a high note, he still is one of the best players in the format in the recent history of India, and some of his performances will be remembered for quite some time.