Melbourne: It was a slow trudge out, with head bowed, for India’s captain Rohit Sharma. The imagery just fit. He had just been dismissed for 3, trying to play a tentative pull shot that was a cross between something you play in gully cricket and how a tailender usually responds to a short ball.

Indian captain Rohit Sharma's comeback to the top of the order ended in disappointment, as his bad batting form continues in the Boxin Day Test of the

The move to disturb the top-order defies logic, it's a desperate move to accommodate the out of form Indian captain.

India skipper Rohit Sharma’s wretched run Down Under continued as India slipped to 51/2 at tea on day two of the fourth Test after Australia rode on Steve Smith’s 34th Test century to post a challenging first innings score of 474 in Melbourne.

Rohit Sharma continued to fail with the bat in the Test series in Australia. The India captain has managed just 22 runs across five innings in the series.