“You Cannot Actually…”: Sunil Gavaskar’s Blunt Take As Rohit Sharma FTo Left-Arm Pacer Once more

Batter Suryakumar Yadav and pacer Jasprit Bumrah starred with impactful performances of their respective departments as India eased previous Afghanistan by 47 runs in a T20 World Cup Tremendous Eight conflict on Thursday. Suryakumar’s 53 off 28 steered the 2007 champions to 181 for 8 in 20 overs after captain Rohit Sharma gained the toss and opted to bat first at Kensington Oval, Barbados. Later, Jasprit Bumrah returned with distinctive figures of three for 7 in 4 overs to assist India bundle out Afghanistan for 134 runs.

Whereas the duo of Surya and Bumrah had an excellent day at work, opposite was the case with batter Rohit Sharma, who scored solely 8 runs off 13 balls. The Indian captain misplaced his wicket to a left-arm pacer as soon as once more.

Whereas attempting to play a cross-batted shot on a fuller supply of Afghanistan’s Fazalhaq Farooqi, Rohit hit the ball within the air and acquired caught out at mid-on.

Rohit regarded extraordinarily cautious towards pacer Farooqi within the first over of the innings, actually maintaining in thoughts the left-arm angle that has troubled him lots in worldwide cricket. However the India batter ultimately perished to the pacer within the third over of the innings.

Former India captain and batter Sunil Gavaskar has come out in defence of Rohit.

“He’s an experinced batter. He is aware of what he has acquired to do. You can not actually inform Rohit Sharma to vary his recreation due to the angle of the bowler. Sure, typically you would possibly say, due to the angle, do not hit in the direction of the on-side, perhaps look to play the within out shot over further cowl. Both stuff you attempt to perhaps perceive that’s what he ought to have carried out,” stated Gavaskar on Star Sports activities after the sport.

“However a person who has acquired a lot of tons and tons of expertise of enjoying limited-overs cricket does not must. He has acquired out. On the finish of the day, batters have some solution to get out. Should you get out caught behind you’ll be able to’t say you’ve got a weak spot towards the off-stump. When you have scored 10,000 to fifteen,000 runs and get out perhaps 40 instances outdoors off-stump that does not really feel there’s a weak spot,” he added.