India vs Australia 2nd Test, Rohit Sharma: The second match of the five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy series is being played with pink ball in Adelaide and Indian captain Rohit Sharma was out cheaply in both the innings of this match. KL Rahul had performed brilliantly in the Perth Test, so the team management decided to go with him for the opening and captain Rohit came to bat at number-6. The Indian captain, however, failed in both the innings. Rohit scored only 3 runs in the first innings of the day-night test and was able to score 6 runs in the second innings. While in the first match, Rohit became the victim of Scott Boland, in the second innings, Pat Cummins showed him the way to the pavilion. Rohit Sharma has become the victim of Pat Cummins for the fifth time.
pat cummins vs rohit sharma
Rohit Sharma’s record against Pat Cummins in Tests is very bad. Rohit has faced Pat Cummins in 11 innings. During this period, he played only 184 balls and was able to score only 120 runs. During this period, Cummins has shown the way to the pavilion five times to Rohit. These figures are enough to show how much Pat Cummins has troubled Rohit Sharma.
Rohit Sharma is throwing wickets on out balls
Since December 2023, Rohit Sharma has been struggling against right-arm fast bowlers. Since December 2023, balls coming off the off stump or coming out of right-arm fast bowlers have proved to be the weak link for Rohit Sharma. Rohit is losing his wicket on these balls so quickly that hardly anyone would have thought about it.
Rohit has faced right-arm fast bowlers in 23 innings and during this period he has lost his wicket 13 times on balls going off stump or outside it. Rohit’s average during this period has been 14.76 and he is able to face only about 26 balls. During this period, Rohit is also desperate to score runs because his strike rate is only 57.14.
How bad these figures of Rohit are can be gauged from the fact that among the batsmen who have faced at least 200 such balls during this period, only Kusal Mendis has been out more times than Rohit.
India in trouble
After being bundled out for 180 runs in the first innings in the Adelaide Test, the Indian team failed to bowl out the hosts cheaply. On the basis of Travis Head’s inning of 140 runs, Australia scored 337 runs in the first innings and took a lead of 157 runs over India on the basis of first innings. The Indian team has lost five wickets in the second innings and is still 29 runs behind Australia. Rishabh Pant and Nitish Reddy were at the crease at the stumps on the second day and India will now have hopes from these two batsmen on the third day.
