India head coach Rahul Dravid on Sunday mentioned the crew was “very lucky” that somebody like Rohit Sharma took over the captaincy from a participant of Virat Kohli’s calibre.
Rohit took over after Kohli stepped down as India’s Test captain in January 2021 following the collection defeat in South Africa.
Praising Rohit’s captaincy after retaining the Bodar-Gavaskar trophy with a six-wicket win over Australia within the second Test right here on Sunday, Dravid mentioned Mumbaikars respect the dressing room.
“He is a kind of individuals who have been there for a very long time. The form of one who does not converse a lot, however when he does, everybody listens.
“He cares a lot about the dressing room and the players. We are very fortunate that Rohit has taken over the captaincy from someone like Virat,” Dravid mentioned after the match.
Captain Rohit lauded the spin duo of Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin for ending the job for India.
Jadeja returned with a career-best 7/42 and, together with Ravichandran Ashwin (3/59), took all of the wickets to bundle out Australia for 113 of their second innings.
“Looking at how things were yesterday, the way we came back and got the job done was brilliant,” Rohit mentioned on the post-match presentation.
“Even although we had been only one run behind, I felt we had been behind as a result of we needed to bat on the finish.
He mentioned, ‘The bowlers had been sensible, taking 9 wickets this morning is commendable. And then we acquired the job achieved with the bat.” Having been 61/1 in a single day, Australia had been bowled out within the first session of the third day.
“Any recreation you play in this kind of climate, there needs to be some moisture in it. I observed that the primary session has quite a bit to supply, however because it progresses it slows down and does not get sufficient bytes.
He mentioned, ‘So our focus was to maintain it tight within the morning and these guys are masters of bowling in these circumstances.
He mentioned, ‘On such a pitch, folks have to do one thing completely different. We had been prepared for him to return and play the shot.
“Our idea was not to panic and just hit in the right areas, wait for the mistake to happen and that’s what happened.” Rohit mentioned that the partnership between Jadeja-Virat Kohli and Akshar Patel-Ashwin acquired them the victory.
“There are lots of moments within the 4 innings however I assumed the partnership between Jadeja and Virat after which Akshar-Ash was sensible.
It’s a giant assist due to the steadiness we have created for ourselves.” Dravid said: “We needed to chase round 200-225 and that partnership enabled us to make a comeback, or we might have been left behind.” Dravid additional mentioned that his bowlers squandered lots of runs within the ultimate session of the second day and credited them for coming again within the first session on Sunday.
“A bit down on the evening for giving away too many runs, I think we probably bowled wrong and were all over the place, and they were coming down hard on us, but we definitely improved this morning. It was fantastic.” Then how did the sport progress?
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
