“Look, whenever you’re enjoying on difficult pitches, you have to be courageous, actually,” Rohit stated through the post-match presentation. “I simply felt we allowed their bowlers to bowl on one specific spot. However not taking any credit score away from their bowlers, particularly Nathan Lyon. He was sensible, he stored difficult us, stored hitting that proper size. So yeah, when the bowler is doing that, you have to come out together with your plans and try to do various things; try to be slightly courageous as effectively, which I believed we weren’t.”
“While you’re enjoying on pitches like this, you want a Shreyas Iyer sort of an innings,” Rohit stated at his post-match press convention. “Somebody has to step up, somebody has to take down the bowlers. It can’t be at all times that the batters will get 100 runs, 90 runs, 80 runs; it’s important to play cameos like that.
“If one of many prime batters can get a giant rating, that is a plus – that is nice – however when the pitch [offers the bowlers something], there’s a problem. You want guys to go on the market and play the way in which Iyer did.”
Cheteshwar Pujara top-scored in India’s second innings, with 59 off 142 balls. At one level throughout Pujara’s innings, when he was tied down by Lyon’s accuracy and 7-2 leg-side discipline, cameras caught Rohit gesturing within the dressing-room balcony as if to inform Pujara to cease defending and check out hitting Lyon excessive as an alternative.
“He loves spending time within the center, he needs to grind it out, that is his method of doing it”
Rohit stated Cheteshwar Pujara’s method was a case of a batter scoring runs based mostly on his personal strengths
In that context, Rohit’s feedback a couple of lack of bravery might be seen as directed as Pujara, however he indicated that this was not the case. At one level throughout his press convention, he expressed his annoyance at being requested repeatedly in regards to the pitch slightly than gamers who carried out on it, and took Pujara’s title whereas doing so.
“Each time we play in India, there’s solely deal with the pitch,” Rohit stated. “Why are folks not asking me about Nathan Lyon, how effectively he bowled, how effectively Pujara batted within the second innings, how effectively Usman Khawaja performed?”
Later, he stated Pujara’s method was a case of a batter discovering a technique of run-scoring based mostly on his personal strengths. This, he stated, was how India needed their gamers to method batting on difficult pitches.
“Pujara [was] being Pujara,” Rohit stated. “He loves spending time within the center, he needs to grind it out, that is his method of doing it. Is probably not the identical method for lots of the opposite guys.
“That’s one thing that we spoke in our group as effectively, discover your personal strategies of going on the market and doing all of your job. So long as the job will get achieved, we’re completely satisfied as a unit. Sure, like] within the first two video games as effectively, the runs won’t come from everybody. So long as the runs come, we’re completely satisfied as a unit.”
Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
