Rohit Sharma on Saturday cleared the air around his omission from the playing XI for the fifth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Sydney.

Once Rohit was done with his training, he along with Bumrah and Agarkar left the nets but Gambhir stayed back. It is learnt that during this meeting after training it was decided that Rohit Sharma would be 'rested', which in Indian cricket parlance means “dropped by intimation”.

The captain of the Indian cricket team is sitting out of a crucial Test match for the first time ever in the middle of an ongoing series as defeats in Australia beckon generational change in the country’s most popular and richest sport.