Indian captain Rohit Sharma was blessed with a baby boy and there is every likelihood that he might make it to the Perth Test against Australia, starting November 22.
His wife, Ritika Sajdeh, gave birth to a baby boy last night in a local hospital. Rohit had stayed back as Ritika was due to deliver their second child. The couple has daughter Samaira, born in 2018.
With little over a week left for the first Test, whether Rohit will play the match even if he chooses to travel to Australia at the earliest is not so clear, but nothing can be ruled out as of now. There were doubts that Rohit would not play the first Test, though head coach Gautam Gambhir was quite hopeful that the captain might just be available.
The Indian team currently needs its skipper and opening batter as the top order is looking too brittle. While Rohit hasn't exactly been in the best of form, he would still, any day, be better than Abhimanyu Easwaran, who has looked out of depth against bounce and seam movement, while KL Rahul has sustained an elbow injury which is believed to be not so serious in nature. But Easwaran and Rahul haven't done enough to be Yashasvi Jaiswal's partner for the lung opener.
India T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav has congratulated Rohit on the arrival of his baby. "Many, many congratulations to him and his family.". It's the best news on a perfect day, he said after India's T20I series triumph against South Africa in Johannesburg on Friday. A guy from the family has also scored runs (120 not out off 47 balls). Tilak Varma from Mumbai Indians) it's a good thing. I wish him all the best for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy also.
Rohit also plays for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League.
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