Cricket News Desk. Indian team star batsmen Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have retired from Test cricket. Earlier, after winning the T20 World Cup in 2024, both of them said goodbye to T20 International. Now both the great batsmen of India will be seen playing only in the ODI format. The biggest question is when will these two legendary players play for India?

The Indian team will play a total of 9 ODIs in the year 2025.
The 2026 T20 World Cup will be hosted jointly by India and Sri Lanka. For this reason, all the teams are focused on T20 cricket. Teams are also playing less in this changing era of T20 cricket. In the year 2025, the Indian team has a total of 9 ODIs to play a total of 9 ODIs, out of which three are against Bangladesh, three against Australia and three against South Africa.

The first ODI against Bangladesh will be played on 17 August.
In August, the Indian team will visit Bangladesh, where it will play three ODIs and the same T20 matches. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli can be seen playing in the ODI series. The Indian team will play the first match of the ODI series against Bangladesh at Xi-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on 17 August. Rohit-Virat can play in this match and this will be his first ODI series after the Champions Trophy 2025.

Indian team’s ODI series program against Bangladesh:
First ODI – August 17, Dhaka
Second ODI – August 20, Dhaka
Third ODI – 23 August, Chittagong
Both batsmen have scored more than 10,000 runs in ODIs.
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are counted among the best players of ODI cricket. Both batsmen have been an important part of the Indian batting order for the past decade. Rohit has so far scored a total of 11168 runs in ODI cricket for India. He is the only batsman in the world to score three double centuries in ODI cricket. Rohit also holds a record of the highest score in the ODI innings. Virat Kohli has scored a total of 14,181 runs in his ODI career so far, including 51 centuries. He is the most century batsman in ODIs.