Team India captain Rohit Sharma lauded the youngsters for playing a key part in the Test series win over England, following their five-wicket win in Ranchi on Monday, February 26. While praising the youngster, Rohit said Yashasvi Jaiswal is hunky-dory, adding that all the youngsters are quite grounded as well.
However, Team India gained an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series by beating England in the fourth Test in Ranchi. The win is significant, as the hosts were playing without star batter Virat Kohli. KL Rahul played only one Test, while Shreyas Iyer has been dropped due to poor form with the bat as well.
At a post-match press conference following India’s series triumph, Rohit Sharma said, “A lot of these guys are quite grounded, to be honest. Jaiswal is still hunky-dory, but other than that all these guys are quite humble, they come from a humble background, so they obviously take that into their game as well. Our job is to make sure that the environment is there for them to go out there and do the job, and that is what we try and do with a lot of these younger players.”
“They have spent a lot of time playing domestic cricket, so they are quite aware of this particular format, playing longer innings, bowling longer spells, they’re quite aware of that. And just when they come in for a series like this, obviously it’s important for us to understand what their thinking is, and then obviously mix and match a little bit with what we think and what they think, and then you form a strategy around it,” Rohit Sharma further added.
“One guy made a hundred, one a 90 and two made 50s. Wicket may be any way to look at, but that doesn’t matter. What happens on it, matters. I think whatever we saw of the four days’ play… It’s India’s nature that the ball spins, and it remains low. Not just now, but this has been the case for 50 years. It’s not that the batters couldn’t bat, and bowlers couldn’t bowl. In fact, bowlers were very happy to bowl on this wicket. Even for batters, if you applied yourselves, making big runs wasn’t difficult. The way Root batted, made a 100. Dhruv Jurel played in such a situation for the first time, second Test and he made runs. More than the runs, see how many balls he played. If you can survive more than 150 balls, there is nothing left,” Rohit Sharma concluded.
