“Not Nightmares…”: Rohit Sharma Reveals Hardest Bowler He Has Confronted. Not Shaheen Afridi

Indian cricket group skipper Rohit Sharma has established himself as one of many greatest stars of the fashionable recreation and through the course of his illustrious profession, he has confronted a plethora of legendary quick bowlers and spinners. Rohit was just lately requested to choose the bowler that gave him ‘nightmares’ and the veteran batter was fast to give you a solution. Rohit mentioned that though he didn’t get any nightmares, legendary South Africa quick bowler Dale Steyn was a fierce competitor. Rohit additional acknowledged that he watched greater than 100 movies earlier than he went out to bat towards the celebrated pacer.

“Not nightmares however I’ve gone and watched his movies like 100 instances earlier than I went in to bat. That was Dale Steyn. He’s an absolute legend of the sport. And what he has achieved in his profession is simply very good to look at. And I’ve confronted him many instances. He’s fast. He used to swing the ball at that tempo, which isn’t simple. It’s fairly powerful. And he was a fierce competitor. He simply went on the market eager to do every thing, to win each recreation and each session, so it was good to come back up towards him. Not that I had a lot success towards him, however I loved my battles,” Rohit mentioned in an interplay with Dubai Eye 103.8.

This isn’t the primary time that Rohit praised Steyn as again in 2020, he was requested an analogous query and he took Steyn’s identify as one of many bowlers he preferred through the begin of his profession.

“Once I got here into the aspect, the quickest bowler on the planet was Brett Lee. In my debut ODI sequence, I went to Eire to face South Africa, and Dale Steyn was fairly fast then as properly. Once I began enjoying, I actually preferred Lee and Steyn, I had difficulties in going through them as properly,” Rohit instructed Indian cricket group quick bowler Mohammed Shami throughout an Instagram Reside session.

“From the present lot, Rabada is an efficient bowler, I actually like Josh Hazelwood as properly, he bowls with nice self-discipline,” he added.