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“It has to be at the right time” – Sitanshu Kotak on sharing inputs with Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma
By SMCS - Jan 28, 2025 8:00 am
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Team India’s new batting coach Sitanshu Kotak has said that he is open to giving his inputs to senior duo of the Indian team – Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. He, however, added that the veterans need to be in the right frame of mind to receive advice as well. Notably, India had a poor batting performances in the three-match home series against New Zealand and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Down Under and they lost the series s well.

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Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli

Speaking at a press conference ahead of the third India vs England T20, he said (as quoted by PTI): “That is the way this game goes, you have to be open and you have to be ready to learn. If they are in a mindset, during that point of time, if they are ready to take any inputs, yes, I would have certain things in my mind and I will say it, but it has to be at the right time and they should feel that they are ready for that.”

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“See, Rohit and Virat are very senior players, but even the players we have now, it is a lot more about sharing, a lot to try and understand how they are planning their game, where they think and then if we can add something. That is how I think. If I can add value to 2%, 5%, that is a great thing, because the amount of cricket they have played and the way they have performed, it would not be unfair to say. There might be a lot of things for me also to learn from them,” he concluded.

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Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma

As a player, Kotak played 130 first-class matches, scoring 8,061 runs which came at an average of 41.76, with 15 hundreds and 55 fifties as well. He was also part of 89 List A games where he scored 3,083 runs at an average of 42.23, with 3 hundreds and 26 half-centuries as well.