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Rohit responds to India’s battle towards left-arm seamers
India captain Rohit Sharma refused to learn Indian top-order batters’ battle towards the left-arm pacers
Staff India’s top-order includes a few of the most interesting batters within the nation with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli being the face of it. However in the case of dealing with left-arm pacers, the battle has all the time been evident. Be it the previous multi-nation tournaments or the continuing 3-match ODI collection, the southpaws have all the time troubled India’s high batters.
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At present, Australia’s Mitchell Starc has loved huge success towards the Indian batting order, scalping eight wickets in two encounters. In Mumbai, Starc returned figures of three for 49 in 9.5 overs however his efforts went in useless because the hosts pulled off a 5-wicket win. On Sunday, he went out all weapons blazing and picked up a five-wicket haul which arrange Australia’s 10-wicket thrashing of the house aspect right here on Sunday.
The Australian pacer’s performances within the two ODIs but once more underlined the woes of India’s top-order, which stacks right-handers in lots, towards left-arm quicks, with the likes of Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir, Shaheen Shah Afridi and New Zealand’s Trent Boult hurting them dearly in essential video games prior to now.
However, Rohit refused to learn Indian top-order batters’ battle towards the left-arm pacers.
“When you may have a top quality bowler within the opposition, he’s certain to take wickets. He’s attempting his greatest to get your greatest gamers out. Whether or not it’s a left-armer or a right-armer, they may get wickets. The precise-armers have troubled us nicely, no one talks about it,” Rohit instructed the media after the second ODI right here.
“We don’t look an excessive amount of into the left-arm or the right-arm — wickets are wickets. For those who lose wickets, it’s a concern. We are going to look into all types of issues: how we’re getting out, what we have to do, how we will give you higher plans, higher strategies towards the seamers.”
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Rohit additional stated that the highest order has struggled ‘somewhat bit’ in simply two video games.
“You realize, the final six ODIs, if I keep in mind loads of the highest order (batsmen) obtained large runs. Once we actually need to look into it, we will certainly look into it.”
With the collection now levelled at 1-1 with one sport left to play, the 2 groups will head to Chennai for the collection decider to be performed on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday.
(With PTI Inputs)
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