All posts tagged: Rohit Sharma vs Australia

Champions Trophy | ‘Hardik’s shots at the end were crucial’: Rohit Sharma lauds allrounder after India defeat Australia in semifinal | Cricket News

Champions Trophy | ‘Hardik’s shots at the end were crucial’: Rohit Sharma lauds allrounder after India defeat Australia in semifinal | Cricket News

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India skipper Rohit Sharma lauded Virat Kohli for his crucial 84-run knock against Australia while also praising the contributions of the other batters, singling out Hardik Pandya’s huge hits at the death on his way to a quick 28 runs from 24 deliveries. On the back of these performances, India defeated Australia by 4 wickets and punched their ticket to the summit clash, scheduled for Sunday in Dubai. “Yes, he’s (Virat) done it for us for many years. We were calm during our batting innings. We wanted that big partnership, which Shreyas and Virat provided, along with smaller partnerships between Axar, Virat, KL, and Virat. And then Hardik’s shots at the end were crucial,” Rohit said after the match. He also talked about the nature of the surface, saying that it played slightly better on Tuesday than the one that was used in the last Group game against New Zealand last week. Story continues below this ad “It looked better, but that’s been the nature of the surfaces here; they’re very uncertain. The surface today …

‘I am not going anywhere’: Full Text of Rohit Sharma’s interview on ‘standing down’ for Sydney Test and denying retirement rumours | Cricket News

‘I am not going anywhere’: Full Text of Rohit Sharma’s interview on ‘standing down’ for Sydney Test and denying retirement rumours | Cricket News

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During the lunch break of the fifth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Rohit Sharma spoke to the broadcasters Star Sports, opening up on his decision to ‘stand down’ from the series finale. Rohit declared he won’t be retiring from Tests and will continue to be a part of the larger scheme of things. None of the three things. I stood down. This is what I say. Stand down. I will say a few words, fifty words will be made out of it. So basically, runs are not coming from my bat, I am not in form, it is an important match, we need players in form, the boys in our batting are not in form, so you cannot carry too many out-of-form players in the team. It was difficult for me to take this decision but if everything is put in front of us, then this decision was sensible, and I will not think too much ahead. What the team needed at this time, this was the only thought, and there was no other thought …

‘If he were not the captain, he might not be playing right now’: Irfan Pathan’s blunt take on Rohit Sharma’s form | Cricket News

‘If he were not the captain, he might not be playing right now’: Irfan Pathan’s blunt take on Rohit Sharma’s form | Cricket News

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Former India player Irfan Pathan did not mince his words while discussing India skipper Rohit Sharma’s form in the ongoing Border Gavaskar series, saying that if he was not the skipper, he wouldn’t find a place in the playing XI. “A player who has made about 20,000 runs — yet the way Rohit is struggling now, it seems his form is not supporting him at all. What’s happening now is that he is the captain, so he is playing. If he were not the captain, he might not be playing right now. You would have had a set team. KL Rahul would have been playing at the top. (Yashasvi) Jaiswal would have been there. Shubman Gill would have been there,” Pathan said. “If we talk about reality, considering how he is struggling with the bat, there might not have been a place for him in the playing XI. But because he is the captain, and you want to win the next match to draw the series, he stays in the team,” the former pacer added. …

‘Series of batting failures reason behind Rohit Sharma’s poor captaincy’: Former chief selector MSK Prasad slams India skipper | Cricket News

‘Series of batting failures reason behind Rohit Sharma’s poor captaincy’: Former chief selector MSK Prasad slams India skipper | Cricket News

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Former India chairman of selectors MSK Prasad lambasted Rohit Sharma’s horrendous batting streak has impacted his leadership during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia. Commentating during Day 2 of the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Prasad observed that Rohit’s timid captaincy also led Australia to have a spotless start to the fourth Test on Thursday. Resuming from their overnight score of 311 for six, Australia eventually finished on 474 with Steve Smith scoring his 11th Test ton against India. Prasad who was the BCCI chairman of selectors from 2016 to 2020, rued India’s missed opportunities on Day 1 when debutant Sam Konstas needled Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj en route to a match-defining half-century. “Rohit sharma is a baggage in this team. He disturbed the team selection after the Perth Test” MSK Prasad is not holding backpic.twitter.com/259z5bYmhU — ` (@Sohel_VKF) December 27, 2024 “Heading into this series, we had a three-match series against New Zealand. It was pathetic. Never happened in the history of Indian cricket that we lost back-to-back three games, and …

Stats Corner: Struggling Rohit Sharma’s career average dips to a six-year low | Cricket News

Stats Corner: Struggling Rohit Sharma’s career average dips to a six-year low | Cricket News

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Rohit Sharma has appeared to complete a fateful circle after his latest hit out in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne. The Indian captain’s carefully nurtured stature as a red-ball opener fell flat when his relentless Australian counterpart Pat Cummins packed him for the third time in succession in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Day 2 of the Boxing Day Test. Snapped for three in the first innings on his return to opening on Friday, Rohit’s career average dipped to 40.87, a six-year low since the 2018 Boxing Day Test (39.62) at the same venue where he last batted in the middle-order, before his three innings at No. 6 earlier this month. It now appears as though Rohit’s cataclysmic semester has almost undone the exploits of Rohit, the Test opener, over the last four years. At the start of the home Border-Gavaskar Trophy last year, Rohit’s career average had peaked at 47.20 after meaty contributions as an opener. Series Inns Runs HS Ave 100 50 WTC 2019-21 19 1094 212 60.77 4 2 3 WTC 2021-23 …

What does India want? Win BGT or bring Rohit Sharma back to form? | Cricket News

What does India want? Win BGT or bring Rohit Sharma back to form? | Cricket News

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The Great Gamble didn’t come off. The opening didn’t need any fixing; Rohit Sharma’s batting did. But the most bewildering event was not that Rohit opened but the way he went about it. The shot he got out wasn’t one of intent nor was he ‘smashing’ the ball. Rohit was slow in the movements and hesitant in the mind. If the reason for his elevation was to bat with more freedom as an attacking mindset can get the feet, hands, eyes sharper, the Indian captain should have tried that approach first in the middle order when the ball turns softer and isn’t seaming around. Caution isn’t working lower down, so let’s try with some whiteball adventurism at the top – Test cricket doesn’t work like that. In case the opener KL Rahul or Yashasvi Jaiswal had been struggling, Rohit’s elevation would have made sense. But with his form, and more importantly the form and touch of the openers, the change of batting order wasn’t really warranted. Even in this Test, Rohit opening in the second …

India’s Rohit headache: Is it age or technique? Will there be a revival or terminal decline? | Cricket News

India’s Rohit headache: Is it age or technique? Will there be a revival or terminal decline? | Cricket News

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Of late, Rohit Sharma the batsman has had the demeanour of a mumbler in a loud bazaar. Tentative, hesitant, unsure. He seems to be prodding at something, something alive and dangerous that could explode on him. At his best, Rohit the cricketer came across as a guy who took what he was doing really seriously, but never took himself seriously. He had that wonderful nonchalance, yet intensity to set and dictate the tempo for his team. It can perhaps be seen as an overreach, even a cliche, but there does seem a wariness, if not weariness, in his visage these days. Definitely the former as a batsman, and the latter as a captain on field. It’s not the leadership but the batting that’s his main worry. In the 2011-12 tour of Australia, a parallel of sorts was seen in Rahul Dravid. He had started well in the first Test, but slowly he kept getting bowled. There were a few murmurs then from a few experts about how it could be something to do with the …

Ravi Shastri’s U-turn on Rohit Sharma’s batting position: ‘Not that he’s going to set the world on fire’ | Cricket News

Ravi Shastri’s U-turn on Rohit Sharma’s batting position: ‘Not that he’s going to set the world on fire’ | Cricket News

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Eight days after suggesting that India captain Rohit Sharma should zero in on a middle-order spot in his Test return in Adelaide, former India head coach Ravi Shastri has made a U-turn on his stance. Shastri, who promoted Rohit to open in Tests five years ago, has now urged the skipper to return to his most-favoured spot at the top of the order in the third Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test in Brisbane starting Saturday, despite his Adelaide no-show and a staggering dip in form. Rohit endured single-digit scores against the pink ball with Australian seamers working out perfect lines to trouble the 37-year-old. Rohit’s demotion meant that KL Rahul stayed put as Yashasvi Jaiswal’s opening partner, only a month after the captain and head coach Gautam Gambhir had suggested a No. 6 slot for the Karnataka batter. While Shastri does not foresee a dramatic turn in Rohit’s fortunes, he believes the opening slot should suit his new-found aggressive methods. “That’s where he’s been at his best over the last eight or nine years,” Shastri was quoted …