Following India's loss in the Line Gavaskar trophy, questions loom over the fates of India's commander Rohit Sharma, who stood himself down in the Sydney Test, and senior hitter Virat Kohli, who succumbed to his seventh score of 20 or less in the series. Lead trainer Gautam Gambhir offered them support yet passed on the important choice to the players. "I can't discuss the fate of any player," Gambhir said at the question and answer session after the series. "It ultimately depends on them also. Yet, indeed, what I can say is that they actually have the yearning. They actually have the enthusiasm. They're intense individuals. Furthermore, ideally they can keep on taking Indian cricket forward. At the end of the day, obviously, that anything they plan, they will make arrangements for the wellbeing of Indian cricket." Rohit has arrived at the midpoint of 10.93 over his last eight Test coordinates with just a single fifty or more score. He addressed Star Sports at lunch on the subsequent day and said that he had taken the choice to pass on the fifth Test since he figured it would have been difficult for the group to win completing so many of-structure hitters. He likewise explained that he wasn't resigning from Test cricket yet. Kohli, in the interim, has been left baffled by his weakness outside the off stump. He made an unbeaten hundred in Perth yet every one of the eight of his different excursions to the wrinkle have finished with his external edge being snaffled up by the wicketkeeper or in the slips. In Melbourne, when that occurred, he slouched over his bat. He had been playing an innings that looked, in Steven Smith's words, similar to a masterclass up to that point. In Sydney, when it reoccurred, he shouted at himself and punched his leg. "As a matter of some importance, each individual knows where their game and craving is," Gambhir, who had himself gone through a stage late in his vocation where he was out of structure yet fighting to make the group. "That is overwhelmingly significant for any game and any calling. It's not just about the game. "It's about how hungry you are, the way enthusiastic you are, and regardless of whether the group is pushing ahead with your commitment. Since eventually, it's neither my group, nor your group, it's the nation's group. I accept, as I said, there are extremely genuine players in our changing area who know how hungry they are. "However, indeed, all things considered, my greatest obligation is that I must be reasonable for everybody there. Not just a couple of people. On the off chance that I'm reasonable for just a few people, and not to every other person, then, at that point, I'm being unscrupulous to my work. So whether a player hasn't appeared at this point, or a player who has played 100 Test coordinates, my straightforward objective in my occupation is that I must be totally fair and equivalent to everybody." India don't have another Test match to play until June 2025, when they visit Britain for five games. Rohit will be 38 by then, at that point, and Kohli will push 37. At the point when gotten some information about his viewpoints on a long haul guide for the group in red-ball cricket, and whether the time had come to put resources into young people, Gambhir said, "Look, discussing it is too soon. The series has quite recently moved past. I think we actually have five additional months to arrange for where we need to head towards. In any case, it's not the right second right now for me to discuss that. Where are we going to be following five months? "A great deal of things change in sport. Structures change. Individuals change. Demeanor change. All that adjustments of game. What's more, we as a whole realize that five months is quite a while. Thus, we should see before the [England] series what will occur. Yet, anything that will occur, will occur for the wellbeing of Indian cricket." India next play Britain in a T20I and ODI series at home in January-February prior to moving to the UAE for their portion of installations in the Bosses Prize, which is being facilitated by Pakistan. For the players who don't make those crews, there is the choice of playing the Ranji Prize, which resumes after a break on January 23. "I would constantly like everybody to play homegrown cricket," Gambhir said. "That is how much significance homegrown cricket should be given. Not just one game. Assuming that they're accessible and they have the obligation to play red-ball cricket, everybody ought to play homegrown cricket. As basic as it can get. "On the off chance that you don't give significance to homegrown cricket, you won't ever get the ideal players what you need in Test cricket."