{"id":194247,"date":"2026-07-17T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194247"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:06:21","slug":"lords-wont-be-rohit-sharmas-last-match-for-india-bcci-secretary-devajit-saikia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194247","title":{"rendered":"Lord\u2019s won\u2019t be Rohit Sharma\u2019s last match for India: BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71235797\">The final ODI against England at Lord\u2019s on Sunday won\u2019t be Rohit Sharma\u2019s last match for India, contrary to speculations, BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia told        <i>PTI<\/i> in an exclusive interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Speculations were rife that the 39-year-old former India skipper had been told by the selectors that they want to look beyond him and would like to give Yashasvi Jaiswal a long rope.<\/p>\n<p>However, Saikia cleared the air that Indian cricket\u2019s much loved \u2018Hitman\u2019 isn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are lot of speculations going on in media about Rohit Sharma\u2019s future. I want to firmly assert that there has been no such discussion that Rohit will be playing his last match at Lord\u2019s on Sunday,\u201d Saikia said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRohit is a regular member of the Indian ODI team and he will continue to represent the country as long as he is in the scheme of things. In other words, Lord\u2019s ODI won\u2019t be his last match,\u201d the BCCI secretary confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the BCCI top brass wasn\u2019t happy about how chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar and head coach Gautam Gambhir looked at the issue. The BCCI secretary issued an official statement after a day long discussions involving all the stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>It must be mentioned that an influential former BCCI official, along with Saikia, a renowned legal figure, also had a role to play as he took the touchy issue to its logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit was apparently very unhappy that he was informed about the decision prior to an important game and he had already expressed his displeasure at how a senior cricketer was being treated.<\/p>\n<p>Saikia also maintained that Rohit will be playing for India as long as \u201che is in the scheme of things\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit is currently 13 games short of entering the \u2018Exclusive 300 ODI\u2019 club.<\/p>\n<p>Even in his conversations with        <i>PTI<\/i>, one of the bonafide white ball greats has always maintained that he is working hard only with the vision of representing the country in the 2027 marquee event after missing out on the silverware in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 17, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/rohit-sharma-retirement-update-lords-wont-be-hitman-last-match-for-india-devajit-saikia-bcci-secretary-confirms\/article71235797.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final ODI against England at Lord\u2019s on Sunday won\u2019t be Rohit Sharma\u2019s last match for India, contrary to speculations, BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia told PTI in an exclusive interaction. Speculations were rife that the 39-year-old former India skipper had been told by the selectors that they want to look beyond him and would like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image20-202026-07-17T235644.558.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194231,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194231","url_meta":{"origin":194247,"position":0},"title":"BCCI rules out Rohit retirement at Lord&#039;s &#8211; 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