Rohit Sharma Explains Reason Behind Sarfaraz Khan’s Batting Promotion In Rajkot | Cricket News

India took a 2-1 lead within the five-match sequence towards England as they claimed a fabulous victory within the third Test on Sunday. Rohit Sharma and Co. declared their innings at 430/4, setting an enormous goal of 557 for England on Day 4. However, the guests couldn’t even inch nearer as they obtained bundled out for 122 and India registered a thumping win by 434 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal was India’s hero as he performed an excellent knock of 214 runs. Apart from him, debutant Sarfaraz Khan additionally impressed everybody, scoring back-to-back fifties.

Sarfaraz scored 62 runs within the first innings and remained unbeaten at 68 off 72 balls in the second. His knock within the second innings consisted of six boundaries and three maximums.

In the primary innings, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was promoted up the order and was despatched to bat at No 5 and Sarfaraz was requested to attend. The guess labored within the favor of India as Jadeja went on to attain 112 runs.

However, within the second innings, the Mumbai-based batter got here and batted forward of Jadeja and actually justified his promotion with the knock.

“For this game, we thought he has got so much experience and has got a lot of runs as well, we wanted that left-right combo, Sarfaraz being Sarfaraz and with the quality he has got, we wanted him to have time,” mentioned Rohit throughout the post-match press convention.

“We saw what he can do with the bat. [on the batting order] It’s not a long-term view, we go with the flow and what we feel on that particular day, looking at the opposition, the bowling attack. We calculate everything and then go with the flow,” he added.

India and England will probably be squaring off towards one another within the fourth Test of the five-match sequence from February 23 in Ranchi.