Team India skipper Rohit Sharma was at his humorous best post their comprehensive win against Australia in the first Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy on Saturday, February 11 at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. He explained his troubles rotating the spinners, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin in the test match.
The hosts defeated Australia by an innings and 132 runs, to take a 1-0 lead in the match. Ravindra Jadeja picked up a five-wicket haul in the first innings, while Ravichandran Ashwin took a fifer in the second, as the broke the back of the Australian batting. The duo achieved several milestones during the match. Talking about handling the Indian spinners, the skipper Rohit Sharma said on Starsports,
“It’s tough (to handle three spinners). They are always inching toward their milestones. Jadeja was telling me, mere ko ball do, I need 1 wicket to reach 250. Ashwin had picked up four wickets, he was closing in on five wickets, and he wanted to bowl. That is the challenge I am facing at the moment with these guys. I don’t know too much about the milestones but these guys are quite aware of it. These guys are of real quality. The pressure is always on me to find the right end for them.”
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Mohammed Siraj bowled 10 overs against Sri Lanka because he wanted five wickets: Rohit Sharma
Explaining his troubles further, the Indian skipper, Rohit Sharma highlighted an incident from the Test match against Sri Lanka. He expressed that pacer Mohammed Siraj bowled 10 overs out of the 22 bowled because he wanted to take a fifer. Rohit Sharma said to Star Sports,
“Every day someone is getting to a milestone. Koi 5-wicket le rha hota, 250 wickets le liya. Koi 450. Ye log mujhe aake bolte mein 250 ke paas hu ball de. Mein 450 ke pass hu mujhe ball de. ODI mein Siraj 10 over dal diya. Against Sri Lanka in Trivandrum, Siraj bowled 10 overs in 25 overs, because he wanted five wickets. vo rukh hi nhi rha. Mein bol rha hu Test match aa rha hai.”
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