We have the strength to play on any wicket and win on it: Rohit Sharma

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Printed on: Feb 19, 2024

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After India registered an emphatic win by 434 runs within the third Take a look at towards England in Rajkot on Sunday, February 18, skipper Rohit Sharma asserted that his aspect has the power to win Take a look at matches on any floor.

India registered their greatest victory when it comes to runs over England in Rajkot on a fairly placid floor. After scoring 430/4 of their second innings, India declared the innings, setting England a mammoth goal of 557 runs. The guests crumbled underneath stress and folded up for 122 in lower than 40 overs as dwelling boy Ravindra Jadeja claimed 5 wickets.

Talking after India gained the numerous 2-1 lead within the five-match collection, Rohit asserted that his aspect is a flexible one which doesn’t rely upon surfaces for Take a look at victories.

“We now have gained a variety of matches on such wickets earlier than. The turning tracks and on pitches the place the ball turns stay our energy. It provides us stability. We now have given outcomes for a few years and we are going to get outcomes sooner or later as effectively. However we do not have management over sure issues – we do not talk about whether or not we wish rank turners or not. We come right here (on the venues) two days earlier than the match and the way a lot can we do anyway in two days?,” he stated.

“The curators determine and make the pitch. We now have the energy to play on any wicket and win on it. Once we gained the Take a look at in South Africa (at Cape City), everybody is aware of what sort of wicket it was,” he added.

The 36-year-old identified that Indian crew have confronted totally different challenges within the first three Checks of the collection and have tried their greatest to cope with them.

“(In) the final three Checks we performed, there have been totally different challenges. Within the first Take a look at (Hyderabad), the ball was spinning and the pitch was sluggish. In Vizag, it was (retaining) low. As the sport progressed, the wicket grew to become slower. Right here, it performed effectively for the primary three days,” he stated.

“As we speak, we noticed that the ball was turning and it was low. That is (in) the character (of pitches), we get pitches like these in India. But when we get rank turners, we are going to play on them as effectively,” Rohit defined.

The Indian captain was all reward for all-rounder Jadeja, who scored 100 within the first innings and claimed 5 wickets in England’s second innings. Stating that the left-arm spinner understands the circumstances very effectively, Rohit stated, “We have seen him over time, he understands the circumstances rather well. He is aware of precisely what his sport is. Right here, he’s no totally different. That is his hometown so greater than anybody else, he is aware of these circumstances higher.

“In case you see the previous couple of years, he is really come out and scored some essential runs for us. Whether or not it is in India or outdoors India as effectively. He is batting rather well and the boldness is there with the bat, which is why we considered sending him up the order as effectively (within the first innings),” Rohit added.

Whereas Jadeja was the Participant of the Match for his all-round present, there have been a few very spectacular performances from the younger weapons. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his second double ton in successive Checks, whereas debutant Sarfaraz Khan scored half-centuries in each innings.

–By A Cricket Correspondent