India captain Rohit Sharma was content material together with his efficiency on his return to the facet throughout a thumping innings and 132-run win over Australia within the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test on Saturday.
Playing at his hometown in Nagpur, Rohit arrange India’s innings with a sensational century (120) after the host dismissed Australia for 177 within the first innings. Rohit, who took over the management duties in late 2021, was solely main India in his third Test as skipper – lacking eight out of the final 10 Tests resulting from a number of accidents and COVID-19 issues.
The 35-year-old racked up his ninth Test ton and first in opposition to Australia as India posted a 400-run complete. Incidentally, Rohit additionally grew to become the primary Indian captain to notch up a century throughout all codecs.
Speaking about his comeback and efficiency within the Test on the post-match chat, Rohit mentioned: “Very important [big score] at the start of the series. Happy that I could put the performance for the team. Was unfortunate that I had to miss a few Tests because of injuries but I’m happy to be back. Since I was appointed Test captain, have played just two Tests. Got Covid in England, missed South Africa, got a freak injury against Bangladesh.”
Barring the lower-order fifties from Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel, not one of the different top-order batters was capable of match up with Rohit’s software on a testing floor that aided spin.
“In the last few years, the kind of pitches we are playing on in India, you need to have application and some sort of plan to score runs. I’ve grown up playing a lot in Mumbai on surfaces that turn a lot. You need to be slightly unorthodox as well, use your feet. Need to put pressure on bowlers as well by doing something different. And that difference could be whatever suits you – using your feet, sweeping, reverse-sweeping,” Rohit elaborated on his method.
While Jadeja was the wrecker-in-chief with a five-for within the first innings, Rohit acknowledged the affect of seamers Mohammed Siraj and Mohammad Shami, who picked up the primary two wickets (Australia openers Usman Khawaja and David Warner) of the Test.
“It was the first two overs from the seamers [created impact] – starting a game like that puts you in the ascendancy. Opposition is under pressure from there. We know we have quality in our spin department. But the seamers can be threatening as well on a pitch like that,” Rohit remarked.
India and Australia will now head to Delhi the place they may meet for the second Test from subsequent Friday.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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