Indian captain Rohit Sharma on Tuesday didn’t disclose any particulars on the standing of injured Axar Patel however mentioned the rhythm Ravichandran Ashwin confirmed within the first two ODIs has assured him of back-up choices for the World Cup in case of an eventuality. Patel had suffered a left quadricep harm forward of the Asia Cup remaining towards Sri Lanka earlier this month, and is at the moment recuperating on the NCA. The efficiency of Ashwin within the first two ODIs towards Australia has additionally sparked the talk whether or not the veteran off-spinner ought to make it to India’s 15-member squad if Patel fails to get well in time.
The deadline for groups to finalise their 15-member WC is September 28.
“He has got the class. He has got the experience of playing the sport and handling the pressure. It is just that he has not played ODIs in the last year or so,” mentioned through the pre-match press meet.
“But you cannot take away the class and the experience the individual has over the years and in the last couple of games we saw how well he bowled,” Rohit mentioned.
Rohit expressed satisfaction over Ashwin’s effort and mentioned it certainly provides them an choice to fall again upon.
“He has got a lot of variation up his sleeve and in case there is a chance, we can look at a lot of things. Hopefully, the way things are at this point, it does well for us because we have got all the backups ready.
“We have given them enough game-time,” he mentioned.
Rohit, who was rested for the primary two ODIs towards the Aussies, expressed happiness over the truth that the Indian workforce has been in a position to overcome challenges with success.
“I am very happy with the last 10 ODIs that we played. A lot of guys came back into form (by) scoring lots of runs and the bowlers are taking lots of wickets. In the last few games, we saw the guys who came back from injuries have proven their fitness,” he mentioned.
“(We are) pretty much settled…how we stand, where we stand. Now, it is about taking this whole situation forward in the best possible way,” he added.
Both India and Australia have by no means inflicted sequence whitewash over one another in ODIs however Rohit mentioned he was not too excited with that prospect, since he has different targets.
“As a skipper, you will not look into all those things as ‘whitewash is on the cards’ and things like that. You want to play good cricket and you want to achieve certain things on the field,” he mentioned.
“The last two games, I was not part of them, but I thought we played a lot of good cricket, and achieved a lot of good things.
“We chased in one game, we batted first in the other, got a decent amount of runs and we bowled pretty well in both games,” he added.
Rohit mentioned the third ODI towards Australia will give the workforce an opportunity to check their consistency.
“Tomorrow’s game allows us to test ourselves in certain areas — whether we can keep up with the consistency that we have shown in the last two games,” he mentioned.
Being the captain of world No. 1 workforce throughout the three codecs is ‘fairly good’ however Rohit didn’t need to relaxation on laurels.
“It is pretty good (being No. 1) but it does not really matter what kind of ranking you go with or what sort of performances you have had in the past,” he mentioned.
“Yes, it is a positive thing to take forward but sports these days are played at present. We have to play very good cricket in the present day and not worry about what happened in the ranking,” he mentioned.
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