ODI World Cup 2027: BCCI clarifies on Rohit Sharma-Virat Kohli’s participation, gives this official response

Ever since Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli announced retirement from the Test and T20 format, a question is looming and pestering the fans whether these two veterans will play in the 2027 ODI World Cup or not? BCCI has clarified and answered the fans about this

New Delhi: Since retiring from Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli's test, the question has been rising very fast in the minds of the fans whether these two giants will play for Team India in the 2027 ODI Cup in 2027 or not. On which now Rajiv Shukla, vice president of BCCI himself, has also spoken, reports Dynamite News correspondent.

Actually, Team India is currently on a tour of England, where a five-match Test series is being played between the two teams. Before the start of this series, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli surprised the fans by announcing their retirement from one Test format after T20 format. Since then, it has been questioned whether these two will play in the ODI World Cup 2027 or not.

Although the BCCI has not yet given any official answer to this question, now Rajiv Shukla has given a statement that the fans are sure to get relief.

Rajiv Shukla's statement on Rohit-Virat's future

Rohit Sharma retired from the Test on May 7 and Virat Kohli on May 12. However, both have full potential to play in the ODI World Cup 2027. On this, now BCCI Vice President Rajiv Shukla has also predicted their availability.

Talking to reporters, Rajiv Shukla said, "Everyone is missing Rohit and Virat. However, this is their own decision. It has been a policy of BCCI that it never asks a player to retire. It depends entirely on the players. Both these players have taken the decision themselves.'

Ro-Ko will play only the ODI format

For information, let us know that Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli retired from the T20 format after winning the 2024 T20 World Cup title. After which both of them also retired from tests in May 2025. Now these two legendary players of India are only going to play the ODI format.

Kohli-Rohit's Career

Talking about Rohit Sharma, he has played 273 ODIs so far, where he has scored 11168 runs. He has 35 centuries and 58 half-centuries in this format. While Rohit has played 67 Test matches and 159 T20 matches. He has 4301 runs in Tests and 4231 runs in T20. Under the captaincy of Rohit, India has won the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 Champions Trophy.

At the same time, if we look at the career of Virat Kohli, then he is called Sankatmochan of India. He has played 302 ODIs so far, scoring 14181 runs. During this time, 51 centuries and 74 fifties have come out of his bat. He is also the batsman to score the most centuries in ODIs. Apart from this, he has scored 9230 runs in 123 Tests and 4188 runs in 125 T20 matches.