‘We are able to play horses for programs’ – Rohit Sharma on choice calls

“What we have to do is we have to go to each venue, see the conditions, and try and get the best XI,” Rohit stated. “It’s as simple as that, and that is what we have done in the past and that is what we will do moving forward.

“The message to the boys has been very clear. We are able to play horses for programs. On whichever pitch, whoever we’d like, we have now to deliver them in. As easy as that. That is one thing that we have now spoken to the fellows [about] initially of this sequence, and we’ll proceed to try this. We must assess what kind of circumstances we’re enjoying in, who’re the proper guys to counter that circumstances, so issues like that. We are fairly open with all of these choices.”

Rohit highlighted the positives both Gill and Suryakumar would bring to the line-up if selected.

“Gill and Surya, they bring about various things to the desk for us,” Rohit said. “Gill everyone knows has been in supreme kind within the final three-four months. Lots of a whole bunch, large a whole bunch as nicely. On the opposite hand, Surya as nicely, in T20 cricket he is proven what he is able to, and what kind of sport he can deliver to Test cricket as nicely. So each are high quality choices for us.

“We have not decided yet what we have to do with those two guys, but yeah, we will keep in mind all aspects of the game and see what it is. I just still have to have a final look at the pitch and maybe once I have a look at it, probably I’ll have [an answer]. [I won’t reveal it until] 9 o’clock tomorrow [at the toss]. I’m not going to give you anything today, 9 o’clock tomorrow is the right time.”

“Rishabh was a very, very important player for us in that middle order, how he batted in the last few years for us,” Rohit stated. “We will definitely miss that, but yeah, we have got a few guys to come and do that job for us in the middle. We are keeping an eye on that particular aspect, where we need someone in the middle order to come and do that – not just the middle order, even in the top order.

“Because you’re enjoying on such difficult pitches, you want guys to face up and discover methods to attain runs as a result of it is not going to be straightforward. We have seen it in the previous few sequence after we performed right here [in India], you want orthodox cricket to be performed as nicely. We’ve had an excellent, stable discuss with all of the batters, discovering their very own strategies of scoring runs, countering what there may be to supply and all of that. Hopefully tomorrow after we begin the sport, we are able to obtain all these issues.”