The veteran player Tino Mawoyo has applauded Abhishek Sharma for bouncing back brilliantly in the Zimbabwe vs India series after a duck on his international debut. He also added that the youngster showed the courage to bat aggressively despite his failure in the first T20I match as well. The Indian team beat the hosts by 42 runs in the fifth and final T20I in Harare on Sunday, July 14, to win the series 4-1 as well.

Reviewing the series on Sony Sports, Mawoyo said, “I think it was even more exciting because of the way the first innings went. He really looked all out of sorts. He looked uncomfortable. He looked out of place but the way he came out in the second T20I and played the game that he knows, it takes a lot of courage to be able to do that when you have failed. I thought that was outstanding for him. A whirlwind start to his T20I career and you can see that he is one guy we can look forward to seeing playing many, many innings in the blue of India.”

Despite scoring a century in the second T20I, Abhishek Sharma was moved to No. 3 once Yashasvi Jaiswal joined the team for the third game.
Sharma managed 24 runs in the two innings he played in the final three T20Is. In the same discussion, Abhinav Mukund also said that he hopes to see Abhishek Sharma’s game grow from here.

“I don’t want him to change anything. It’s just exciting to see a young player come and smash sixes and fours and get to a 47-ball 100. These are the kind of players that are going to win you games single-handedly. They might end up frustrating you sometimes with a shot that may not be on in that particular situation. However, this is the enthusiasm of youth and you need to just encourage that. When he fails, I just hope nobody is too harsh on him because he is going to give us glorious innings like what we saw here and there is enough proof that he is going to give a lot more to Indian cricket,” Mukund added.