India will not have a test in their own field for the next year. According to the ICC's future schedule plan, they are scheduled to play two Tests against the West Indies in October-November 2025. According to many, 37-year-old Rohit Sharma and 36-year-old Virat Kohli have played their last Test in the country.
Some in the Indian cricket board feel that the Mumbai Test against New Zealand was their last Test at home. Many are seeing the beginning of the end for Rohit-Kohli after being thrashed by the Kiwis at home. In the last 5 Tests in 10 innings, the two experienced batsmen have scored only one fifty each.
India have slipped from the top of the Test Championship points table to number two after the rout. There is concern about the final game. They will have a chance to play in the final if they can do something great in the 5-test series in the upcoming tour of Australia. Rohit, Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin are also testing the fate of this Test series.
A BCCI source told news agency PTI, '(New Zealand) it has been a huge disaster. But the Australia series is just days away and the squad has already been announced. So there will be nothing more to do in the Australian tour squad.' That means this series will be played with Kohli-Rohit.
The four senior cricketers will miss the next Test series against England if Australia fails the series, the source said, 'but if India do not qualify for the final of the Test Championship in England, it is certain that the four super seniors will not be on that flight to UK for the upcoming five-Test series. In any case, all four probably played their last Test together at home.'
