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    "excerpt": "Gavaskar Trophy Test: Australia cricketing great Ricky Ponting feels the path for Rohit Sharma to play Tests again will be a long and difficult one after the regular Indian skipper opted to rest from the ongoing fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday.",
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    "editor1": "Gavaskar Trophy Test: Australia cricketing great Ricky Ponting feels the path for Rohit Sharma to play Tests again will be a long and difficult one after the regular Indian skipper opted to rest from the ongoing fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday.<p>Rohit has averaged just 6.2 from the three Tests he played against Australia with the highest score of 10. Speculation around him not playing at Sydney emerged after head coach Gautam Gambhir refused to term him as a guaranteed starter in the pre-match press conference.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Rohit had already bid farewell to T20Is after captaining India to the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup in 2024 triumph. \u201cI think the reaction has been that they all sort of expected that it might happen. The chat's been for the last couple of days that everyone expected that Rohit would not play this game, that Shubman Gill would come back in and that (Jasprit) Bumrah would probably take over the captaincy again and that's the way it's turned out.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cYou'd think it's probably a long way back for Rohit Sharma now in this format of the game. India don't play a Test match, I believe, until the middle or late June, which is a long way away when you're sort of coming to the back end of your career.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI think he's been a terrific player for India so with those sort of guys, you wish them all the best and hope to see them back out there again, but as I said, I think it will be a long - and probably difficult road - back for him,\u201d said Ponting to the ICC Review show at the SCG.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He also pondered the thoughts behind the word \u2018opted out\u2019 being used for Rohit not playing the Sydney Test coming from the Indian team camp. \u201cI was very surprised when I heard the term \u2018opting out\u2019 coming into such an important game. We know he's been a great stalwart for Indian cricket over a long period of time.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI think he's been a terrific player for India so with those sort of guys, you wish them all the best and hope to see them back out there again, but as I said, I think it will be a long - and probably difficult road - back for him,\u201d said Ponting to the ICC Review show at the SCG.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b>Also Read: <\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/tagging\/highest-tax-paying-cricketers\">Highest tax paying cricketers<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Article Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ians.in\/english-wire\/sports\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">IANS<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n",
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