Rohit Sharma on Rishabh Pant Wicket: Praising Rishabh Pant’s past successes due to his high-risk style of playing the game, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said that the wicketkeeper-batsman needs to figure out the right way to do things for himself and the team. However, Rohit himself was out cheaply in both the innings of the Boxing Day Test. Rohit’s comments came after Pant walked away after throwing away his wicket at a crucial juncture in Australia’s 184-run defeat at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
In the first innings of the Melbourne Test, Pant played a scoop shot at third man and was out after scoring 28 runs in 37 balls, for which he was severely criticized by the legendary Sunil Gavaskar. On the fifth day of play, Pant, after showing remarkable composure, mistimed a pull shot off Travis Head at deep mid-wicket and was out for 30 off 104 balls. Due to his dismissal, the Indian team collapsed for 155 runs while chasing the target of 340 runs.
Rohit Sharma said in the press conference after the match, “There was no discussion about today. We are all disappointed. But again, look, Rishabh Pant needs to understand that none of us can stop him from telling him.” It’s more about him understanding what’s the right way to do it, so as a captain, we’ve had a lot of success with that. -Julie’s response.”
Rohit Sharma further said, “Sometimes you want to think about the way he plays; sometimes, when things don’t look good, it frustrates everyone. That’s the truth, that’s the truth. In this There is a need to strike a balance between success and failure. It is difficult to negotiate as a captain when it has brought him so much success.”
Rohit said in the post-match press conference, “But it is about them finding out what is the right way to do things, it is also about the circumstances. In certain situations of the game, if the percentage of risk So do you want to take that risk? Do you want to let the opposition come back into the game? Those are the things they need to figure out themselves.”
On Pant not being in his best run-scoring form so far in the series, Rohit said, “I have known Rishabh for a long time and understand his cricket as well… In terms of conversation, I can’t say Maybe I haven’t talked to him or he doesn’t understand what’s expected of him, but he gets consequences for the things he does. say or ask them to do those things, between There’s a fine line.”
India’s playing eleven surprised people as Shubman Gill was dropped for Washington Sundar. With Gill out, Rohit moved to his usual opening position and KL Rahul came in at number three. Rohit said that the reason for keeping Gill out was to have more bowling options in the playing eleven, as well as to maintain some depth in the batting.
Regarding Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma said, “I spoke to him (Gill), when you keep someone out, for whatever reason, you will not talk. It was clear to him; he was not dropped. We just needed extra comfort in bowling and we chose an all-rounder so that our batting line-up is not weak.”
Rohit said, “Adding a batsman for a bowler was not something I wanted to do. We wanted to bat as deep as possible, as well as have a bowling attack that could take 20 wickets.” .We considered everything, and unfortunately we compromised with them.
He concluded, “There was never any doubt with him that he was not batting well or not scoring runs, or anything like that. Just to get that combination where we could cover both the batting and bowling bases, “We chose it.”
