India, Feb. 5 -- India captain Rohit Sharma was not amused at all when asked whether his barren run of form would come to an end with the return of the ODIs, a format which gave him the moniker 'Hitman'. Rohit, now retired from T20Is, has been horribly out of form in Test cricket. Since the England series at home, which saw him finish as India's second-highest run-getter behind Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit has just managed to score one fifty in 15 attempts. He has been dismissed in single-digit scores as many as 10 times during this period.

When talks about his retirement were on the rise during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Rohit did a first. He became the first Indian captain to drop himself from the playing XI despite being fully fit and ava...