Former Australia batsman Mike Hussey urged Australian batsmen to be taught from Rohit Sharma’s batting fashion forward of the third Test beginning on the Holkar Stadium in Indore on Wednesday.
Speaking to The Telegraph, Mike Hussey stated, “Obviously, the Aussies can take a lesson from Rohit Sharma’s book and see how he has batted so far.” Rohit has scored 183 runs in three innings at a mean of 61 within the sequence, together with a powerful ton within the first innings at Nagpur.
He stated, ‘The manner Rohit has completed his job, it’s undoubtedly a great way of coping with spin and scoring runs in such situations. Indian batsmen have grown up enjoying on such pitches and therefore they’re extra used to it. But actually it isn’t attainable to bat the way in which he (Rohit) is batting. For instance, I could not bat like Matthew Hayden.” Hussey added.
The former Australian scored 493 runs in India at a mean of 44.83 and was generally known as one of many higher gamers of spin throughout his time.
The Australian batsmen had been closely criticized by former gamers and pundits for taking part in sweep photographs and getting dismissed in the course of the second innings of the Delhi Test.
Talking about the identical, Hussey stated, “So the main focus of Australian batsmen must be to see how every certainly one of them can rating runs. Everyone has a distinct fashion of batting. So some have to hit boundaries and Some must be extra aggressive, whereas some ought to play the function of anchors. Batsmen have to give attention to their strengths and the strokes that get them runs as a substitute of making an attempt a specific shot.
You additionally must needless to say within the final Test (at Kotla), the ball was very low. Peter Handscomb did an excellent job within the first innings (72 not out) however couldn’t do a lot within the second innings. You want a bit little bit of luck to achieve success in such conditions.” He added.
Despite shedding the primary two Tests, Mr Cricket is optimistic that the Australian facet could make a comeback within the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
