Staff India has had among the biggest batters in white-ball cricket together with the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli however as a finisher, none higher than legendary skipper MS Dhoni. Dhoni, who was identified to take the sport deep, had an ice-cool temperament as he completed a number of white-ball video games for India in addition to within the IPL for Chennai Tremendous Kings and Rising Pune Supergiant.
Nonetheless, for Virat Kohli, Dhoni wasn’t his worst nightmare as a bowling captain at dying. In a freewheeling chat on his YouTube channel, veteran Indian off-spinner R Ashwin revealed that Kohli’s worst nightmare was Rohit Sharma, who went into overdrive mode when he batted within the dying overs.
“5-6 years again, Virat Kohli and I had a dialogue whereas Rohit was batting. I don’t bear in mind which match it was. Seeing Rohit bat, I used to be considering, ‘The place do you even bowl to him?’”
“If Rohit is about after 15-20 overs, you wouldn’t know the place to bowl him. Virat requested me, ‘Are you aware who’s a captain’s nightmare on the dying?’ I requested ‘Is it (MS) Dhoni?’,” he added.
“Kohli was like, ‘No, it’s Rohit. Once I requested him why, he mentioned you received’t know the place to bowl’. If Rohit Sharma is batting on the finish of the sixteenth over in a T20, the place will you bowl? He has received all of the photographs within the e book and as soon as he performed a unprecedented knock in Chinnaswamy Stadium that Kohli can always remember, it appears,” Ashwin additional mentioned.
Since 2013, Rohit has opened the innings for India in white-ball cricket and has gone on to grow to be one of many higher openers on this planet. And as everyone seems to be witness to, when Rohit performs lengthy, he performs actually lengthy as his three double a whole lot in ODI cricket evidently say. Staff India will hope that Rohit can play a number of extra of such innings within the subsequent couple of months with the Males in Blue set to face Australia in a three-match ODI collection, adopted by the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023.
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