NEW DELHI: India captain Rohit Sharma made a robust assertion on Sunday, emphasizing that the crew is not going to abandon their lately adopted aggressive model of play in Take a look at matches after struggling a single loss.
Regardless of India’s valiant effort to attain 462 runs within the second innings, following a dismal first innings complete of 46, New Zealand proved to be the superior aspect, securing an eight-wicket victory within the first Take a look at in Bengaluru.
“We do not change our mindset primarily based on one sport or one collection. We aren’t going to alter our mindset fearing the dropping of a Take a look at match,” Rohit mentioned within the post-match press meet.
India showcased an analogous dedication in opposition to Bangladesh lately in Kanpur, striving for victory even after dropping greater than two days to rain.
“It is about to attempt to not let the opposition know that we’re beneath stress or we’re behind the sport. If you find yourself really behind, you need to attempt to do extraordinary issues and play with none concern.
“A few of the Take a look at matches we performed lately exhibits what I’m speaking about and that is how it’ll be. It is one factor to speak about it, however really we went on the market (in Bengaluru) and performed some fearless cricket,” added Rohit.
Nonetheless, Rohit famous a flip aspect to this, stating that the visiting batters have additionally been in search of methods to deal with Indian bowlers, significantly the spinners. He pointed to Rachin Ravindra‘s century as a primary instance.
“A few of the pictures Rachin performed have been actually, actually good. He performed properly in opposition to spinners. He understood what our spinners have been making an attempt to do and he did not again off from taking part in his pure sport. Rachin and (Devon) Conway put our spinners beneath stress taking part in completely different pictures,” he mentioned.
Rohit additionally mirrored on Ollie Pope’s century within the first Take a look at at Hyderabad earlier this 12 months, the place he successfully used numerous forms of sweeps in opposition to the Indian spinners.
“England batters had executed that. Anybody who’s coming to India now, they’re making an attempt to place the stress on the bowlers by doing various things, completely different strategies. However we all know precisely what we’re presupposed to do when the scenario like that arises,” he added.
