Currently, senior players of Team India Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are part of the ODI team. Recently, Rohit Sharma was taken away by the captain of the ODI team and handed over to young batsman Shubman Gill. At the same time, it cannot be said whether these two legendary players will play in the 2027 ODI World Cup or not.
Rohit Sharma is currently 38 years old and he will be 40 till the next ODI World Cup. In such a situation, how much his fitness will support him or how Kohli keeps himself connected to the team till that tournament is a big question.
If Kohli and Rohit want to play for India in the next World Cup, then former Team India fast bowler Irfan Pathan has told about what they should do for this. Actually, Pathan wants these senior players to play domestic cricket amidst the ODI series to maintain their fitness.
Talking on his YouTube channel, Irfan Pathan said that Rohit and Virat want to play 2027 ODI World Cup but sports fitness will be a big challenge for him. Rohit has done a good job on his fitness and he is also looking quite fit but there is a lot of difference between the rules of fitness and sports time. If you are not a regular cricket game, then it is a challenge to maintain fitness, so they have to play in domestic cricket.
Irfan further said that both are big players and know what to do. They have no shortage of experience but they are no longer playing T20 and there will be a lot of interval between some matches played before the ODI World Cup 2027. For this, they will need to play regularly and only then can both of them dream of playing in the 2027 ODI World Cup.