The Indian captain Rohit Sharma has shared his father’s love for test cricket, recalling their detailed conversations about his performances in the long format.

His father valued red-ball cricket over modern formats even after Rohit’s ODI record. He had a lukewarm reaction when he smashed a record 264 runs in ODI cricket.

Rohit Sharma recently called time on his career in Test Cricket. Given that he has already retired from T20Is, Rohit Sharma remains a one-format player, continuing as the skipper in the ODI format.

The former skipper’s sudden announcement would leave a massive void, as Team India would be in short supply of veterans’ experience after the Big 3 of modern-day Indian Cricket called time in tests.

Rohit recently revealed his father’s fondness for red-ball cricket and how their conversations revolved around the format when he was a part of the action for Team India.

“My father always, since day one, has been a fan of Test cricket; he doesn’t like this new-age cricket. I still remember the day I scored 264 in an ODI, he was like, ‘Okay, well played, well done.’ There was no such excitement from him that it was a world record and all of that.

But even if I used to get good 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s in Test cricket, he used to talk to me about it in detail. So that’s the kind of love he had for the game,” said Rohit Sharma at the event launch of Cheteshwar Pujara’s wife Puja’s book “The Diary of Cricketer’s wife.”

Team India has a big assignment on the line as they has departed to England for a five match test series.

After Rohit Sharma’s test retirement, BCCI has named Shubman Gill as the captain for the long format. Gill-led India will be lock horns against Ben stokes-led England and a new trophy is on the line.

With the trophy has been renamed as Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy as ECB has named it after two of the living legends of the game Sachin Tendulkar and James Anderson.

The first match of the test series will be played between June 20 and 24 at Headingley in Leeds.