'Confirmed Mumbai will be out of Playoff race' - Rohit Sharma hints few players will leave Indian T20 League early for Test Championship final

Rohit Sharma (Source - Twitter)

India booked their ticket to the Oval for the World Test Championship final after New Zealand's thrilling win over Sri Lanka in the first Test in Christchurch. Although the final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia ended in a draw, Kiwis denied Sri Lanka a place in the WTC final in a nail-biting finish, which also secured India's berth. The battle between Rohit Sharma-led India and Pat Cummins-led Australia will continue from June 7, as both teams will lock horns to clinch the title in the longer format.

Following India's win in the fourth Test in Ahmedabad, Indian captain Rohit Sharma hinted that the team will focus on preparing for the Test Championship even though the players will participate in the upcoming edition of the Indian T20 League starting on March 31. Rohit said that the team management will monitor the workload of the players who are part of the ITL 2023 and try to send them to the UK as soon as they complete their franchise duties.

It's quite critical for us: Rohit Sharma

In the post-match press conference, the India opening batter said: "It's quite critical for us. We are going to keep in constant touch with all the players who are going to play that final and monitor their workload and see what's happening with them.

"Around 21st May, there will be six teams who will be possibly out of IPL play-off contention and so whichever players are available, we will try and find time to get them to UK early as possible and get some time and we will monitor as much as possible."

The skipper further said that squad selection for the WTC final will not be a big problem as there will not be many changes to the team that played in this BGT.

"Guys who will be part of finals are not the guys who have not played in the UK. Maybe there could be one or two guys here and there and rest all of us have played in that part of the world. I don't think it will be a huge problem," Rohit said.

Here's how Twitter reacted to Rohit Sharma's statement: 

MI - Rohit, SKY
GT - KS Bharat, Shubman Gill
RCB - Virat Kohli
LSG - KL Rahul,
CSK - Jadeja
RR - Ashwin

So., SRH, KKR, KXIP, DC should play the Playoffs.

— Pavan Kumar Ponugoti 🇮🇳 (@pavankumarppkn) March 13, 2023

I wish all players who are playing skip and travel to England two weeks before ..
Ipl is imp but wtc Is focus

— Nitin jain(Sachinsuperfan) (@NitinSachinist) March 13, 2023

So confirmed MI will be out of the Playoff Race too🤣🤣🤣

— Srinivasan Sridharan (@srin_srid0610) March 13, 2023

Rohit sharma will be the first then

— MaDaRa (@Blitz_MaDaRaa) March 13, 2023

Rohit already know his future 🤣😅🤣

— Lmao_Zedong (@kholistan) March 13, 2023

Rohit already know virat Siraj and Jadeja future

— Aman Awasthi (@AwasiAman17) March 13, 2023

So Kohli will get good practice in UK ♥️

— Em!N€nt $oC!@li$t (@Insane__Emi) March 13, 2023

Definitely he is talking about Chokli 😂😂😂😂

— Shivangi Singh (@Shivang89665249) March 13, 2023

As of history Virat, Puji all set to go to UK as none of them going to play playoffs 😂😂 ee sala cup namde 💛🙃

— DJOKER♠️ (@AniketN_79) March 13, 2023