Ever since Rohit Sharma has started opening the batting in limited overs cricket, his career has only seen the upward graph and now he is looking to do the same in Test cricket as well, if the team management ever considers that as an option in near future. He has scored 1479 runs at an average of just under 40 in 25 Tests with three centuries and nine half-centuries but is currently out of consideration as far as longest format is concerned.

With the trio of KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay struggling, Rohit has posed a question if he would like to open the innings in Test matches too.

During a promotional event, Sharma said, “Look, I have never been offered (to open the innings in Tests) yet but I am open to anything as in whatever the team management wants. No option is shut for me, so if the opportunity comes, I will take it. I want to be part of the (Test) team, but it is not in my hands. To be ready, I am doing everything, training, doing as much as possible to give myself the best chance when the opportunity comes there.”

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Team India is trailing the ongoing 5-match Test series against England by 0-2, but Rohit supported his team members as he said that a comeback is still possible even though it won’t be easy.

The elegant batsman elaborated, “Yes, of course, we have to believe that we can do it. It’s not going to be that easy. We have done it in South Africa we lost the first two Test matches and then we bounced back in Johannesburg and won that Test match. We have won Test matches in England before, we just need to get in that mindset, how we won the Test matches in England on previous tours and we have to play like that.”

Sharma concluded by stating that there are still three Test matches to go, and he thinks that a turn around can happen only if the players believe that they can do it.