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Rohit Sharma is a match-winner, and India could have won that game and tied the series, according to former India head coach Ravi Shastri, who said that he wouldn’t have let him miss the recent Border-Gavaskar Trophy if he were still in that role.

After a disappointing series loss to Australia in the World Test Championship and a recent slump in his batting performance that resulted in him missing the Sydney Test, Rohit decided to retire from Test cricket.

Since then, Shastri has spoken about a conversation he had with Rohit before his retirement and during an IPL match.

“I believe that happened in Mumbai, and I told him that you wouldn’t have missed that last Test if I had been the captain.” The series wasn’t over, so you would have played that final Test,” Astri said during the most recent ICC Review program.

And even though the score was 2-1, I’m not one to give up. You quit a team if your attitude is that you are… that’s not the stage. It was a game with 30–40 runs,” Shastri said.

Rohit scored only 31 runs in his three appearances in Australia after missing the first of five Test matches due to the birth of his baby.

Rohit averaged a pitiful 10.93 in his past eight Test matches, including home series against Bangladesh and New Zealand, and only managed to reach the 50-run milestone once.

And I told him just that. In Sydney, the pitch was very hot. Regardless of his current status, he is a match-winner. You never know,” Shastri said, “if he had gone, recognized the circumstance, sensed the condition, and blasted it for even 35-40 at the top.”

It would have been a level series. However, it is up to each individual. The styles of other individuals vary. I told him that this would have been my style. I’ve had that in my heart for a while,” Shastri said.

India’s star bowler Jasprit Bumrah captained the squad in the Sydney Test while Rohit was out.