Praises pour in for Rohit Sharma's exceptional captaincy: 'Managing 4 spinners is a tough task'

Rohit Sharma's stellar performance in leading India to victory in the Champions Trophy 2025 has garnered widespread praise. His leadership was instrumental in India's victory over Australia in the semi-finals, making him the only captain to have led a team to all ICC tournament finals.

The MI opener led India to the finals of 2023 WTC, 2023 ODI World Cup, 2024 T20 World Cup and recently the 2025 Champions Trophy. Other than the 2025 Champions Trophy final, he also led India to glory in the T20 World Cup last year.

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Speaking to Cricket, India spinner Kuldeep Yadav dissected Rohit's captaincy, and hailed his management of all the four spinners in the squad. Other than Kuldeep, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel were the other spinners named in the squad, and all featured in the final.

“It’s very difficult to manage four spinners and the way he managed, it was amazing to see,” he said.

“When four spinners are playing together, it is very hard to rotate any of them. Obviously the planning was going on, we played our last game in Dubai on March 4 and we got plenty, like four or five days of break and then we had a chat how we go about this game.

“The plan for me and Varun was to bowl to the new batter. We wanted to finish Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel’s over before Mitchell Santner and Michael Bracewell come to bat,” he added.

Chakaravarthy and Kuldeep bagged two wickets each in the final. Meanwhile, Jadeja scalped a dismissal. Jadeja also hit the match-winning boundary in the final.

Kuldeep also spilled details about the role given to him by Rohit during the tournament. “In the last game when Head was batting, he (Rohit Sharma) thought probably I was the better option against him and he wanted me to bowl and get him out. If he could have hit for a couple of sixes, he was fine with it. Today obviously Varun got the first wicket of Will Young and I bowled in the 11th over. I mean, Rachin was batting really well. It was the planning, to be very honest,” he said.

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