{"id":226238,"date":"2025-10-26T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226238\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:40:15","slug":"keeping-the-legends-sharp-how-shubman-gill-plans-to-manage-rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohlis-odi-rhythm-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226238\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the legends sharp: How Shubman Gill plans to manage Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli&#8217;s ODI rhythm | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rohit-sharma-and-virat-kohli.jpg\" alt=\"Keeping the legends sharp: How Shubman Gill plans to manage Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli's ODI rhythm\" title=\"Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (Pic credit: BCCI)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (Pic credit: BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virat Kohli<\/a> will need careful management going forward, now that they play only one format, skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shubman-gill\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shubman Gill<\/a> said on Saturday, underlining the importance of game time for the two white-ball legends.Kohli and Rohit finished the ODI series on a high, scoring unbeaten 74 and 121 respectively, guiding India to a nine-wicket win in the dead rubber against Australia.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Asked about the upcoming gap before the next series against South Africa and then New Zealand, Gill admitted there has been no discussion yet. \u201cWe haven&#8217;t talked about it yet. But I think once the South Africa ODI series is over (on December 6), there will be a gap in international cricket before the New Zealand ODI series (January 11, 2026). So I think then we will see how to keep the players in touch. Then I think a decision will be taken,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shubman Gill Press Conference: Captain hails Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli after India\u2019s big win<\/p>\n<p>With only six more ODIs for the season \u2014 three against South Africa and three against New Zealand \u2014 ensuring adequate game time is a challenge. For the young skipper, watching the 38-year-old Rohit and 36-year-old Kohli finish a clinical chase was nothing short of a treat. \u201cThey&#8217;ve been doing this for the past 15 years. To be able to watch them play like this and get the team through unbeaten is really a treat to watch,\u201d Gill said.He added, \u201cAs a captain, when you sit outside and watch the match, it feels really good that the two senior-most players of the team are playing, and they&#8217;re getting the team through.\u201dGill also highlighted the technical brilliance of the duo: \u201cI think, like I said, it&#8217;s a treat to watch both of them, especially when they&#8217;re batting like that, and seeing the ball fly off their bats, and just hearing the sound that comes off their bat is something that tells you how good a nick that they&#8217;re both in.\u201dHe concluded by praising their approach to finishing games: \u201cWatching them from outside and taking the team through is something that we often talk about in team meetings. They are walking the talk, so it&#8217;s a great bonus to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (Pic credit: BCCI) Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will need careful management going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,29235,18856,7054,101,27679,56,54,55,96372,15624],"class_list":{"0":"post-226238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-odi-series","10":"tag-rohit-sharma","11":"tag-shubman-gill","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-team-india","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-vijay-hazare-trophy","18":"tag-virat-kohli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}