Melbourne. 38-year-old Ravichandran Ashwin, who appeared in the press conference with captain Rohit Sharma on Thursday after the Gaba Test was drawn, surprised everyone by suddenly retiring from international cricket. Some veterans had questioned the timing of Ashwin's retirement, but it is not only Ashwin but there are many other senior players who will decide on their future after the final Test of the Border-Gavaskar series.

If the Indian team does not reach the final of the World Test Championship after the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, then it will have to play Test matches in June-July next year. The team will play a series of five Test matches on the England tour. The Indian team is currently in a phase of change, where many young players are being tried. A similar phase of change also happened in 2012-13, when senior players of the Indian team like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman retired one by one.

These players will decide the future

During that time players like Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja became part of the team. In Ashwin's case, it is believed that seeing Washington Sundar getting more opportunities, this off-spinner understood that now his chances of being selected for the England tour are very low. That's why he suddenly announced his retirement in the middle of the series.

There are some other players who can decide on retirement after the Australia tour. These include 37-year-old captain Rohit Sharma, 36-year-old Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja. All three players have already retired from T20 after winning the World Cup this year. Rohit Sharma is going through a bad phase in Tests. He is consistently failing to play big innings.

Rohit-Virat in bad phase

Since the Test series against Bangladesh this year, Virat's average in the first innings is less than 10. Rohit's average in the first innings is 6.8. Kohli may have scored a century in the second innings of the Perth Test, but after that he has been continuously failing. He is getting out in the same way again and again and many legends have raised questions on him.

Rohit's hand-eye coordination is not visible. 36-year-old experienced all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is also included in the list of players who will have to decide whether to stay or go. Although Jaddu has played an important innings of 77 runs in the Brisbane Test, these three players can now take this step to give a chance to the coming generation.