India vs West Indies: 5 wrong signals team India gave with the Rohit Sharma obsession

#3 Willing to unsettle batting order

Kohli and Rahane have had to move their batting order to make way for Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma is not best suited to play at number three in the batting order, it seems. He can only be accommodated to play number five. Maybe the team management think that he is a specialist number five.

To accommodate the man who Virat Kohli believed “can change a match within a session”, the skipper sacrificed his and Ajinkya Rahane's batting position. The two best batsmen of India’s lineup changed their batting positions. Then met with failures. Virat, aiming to be the best test batsman in the world, failed both innings; Rahane failed in first innings but came back to score a masterly and quick 78 not out in the second essay.

Rohit got scores of 9 and 41, enough to keep in him the team for next test. Pujara got dropped for scores of 16 and 46 - admittedly scored at strike rate of 25 runs per hundred balls, that may have led to his drop. Rohit now cannot be dropped for fourth and last test as that would throw further confusion on the reason for the change in team.