Struggling for runs in the longest format of the game lately, India skipper Rohit Sharma decided to step aside from the fifth and final Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground earlier this month.

Rohit was all over the place in the tour Down Under, managing just 31 runs in five innings at an abysmal average of 6.20 -- the lowest by a touring captain on Australian soil.

Speculations over his Test future gained momentum after India lost the Boxing Day match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Rumours are rife that the Melbourne Test may have been Rohit’s last for India, considering that the 37-year-old is unlikely to be in the scheme of things for India’s next WTC cycle, which begins with the tour of England later this year.

Rohit Sharma called time on his T20I career after leading India to the T20 World Cup triumph last June, and Suryakumar Yadav took over the reins a month later. Jasprit Bumrah, who led India at Perth and Sydney in Rohit’s absence, looks poised to captain the national team in Test cricket going forward.

With growing speculations on Rohit's future, a report published in Dainik Jagran claims that his international career is unlikely to go beyond the Champions Trophy.

According to the report, Rohit will make his final international appearance in Champions Trophy, slated to be held in Pakistan and UAE from February 19 to March 9.

"The possibility of Rohit going to England for five test matches is very less," read the report.

Incidentally, Australian legend Adam Gilchrist reckoned the same on the last episode of Club Prairie Fire podcast.

“I don’t see Rohit going to England. I just felt that he says he will assess it when he gets home. I mean, the first thing he will be met with when he gets home is a two-month-old baby that he has to change the nappies on. Now that might incentivise him to go to England. But I don’t see him pressing on," Gilchrist said.

“I think he’ll probably have a crack at the Champions Trophy, and that might be… that might see him out," he added.