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Indian cricket workforce captain Rohit Sharma© AFP
Former Indian cricket workforce head coach Ravi Shastri believes that skipper Rohit Sharma was fairly ‘subdued’ throughout the loss towards Australia within the pink-ball Take a look at towards Australia in Adelaide. India have been utterly outplayed by the hosts as they slumped to a 10-wicket loss – a end result that majorly dented their World Take a look at Championship (WTC) Last hopes. Shastri mentioned that he desires Rohit to be extra animated and concerned within the upcoming matches and believes that they’ll bounce again within the five-match sequence.
“That’s the reason I want him at the top. That’s where he can be aggressive and expressive. Just thought he was a little too subdued, just seeing his body language. The fact that he didn’t make runs, I don’t think there was enough on the field there. I just wanted to see him more involved, and a little more animated. You still have to believe that you can bounce back in this series. You have seen with these two teams, that the counter-punch is almost immediate. It’s happened over the last 10 years. You lose one, you win the next, but you have to have the belief,” Ravi Shastri advised the broadcasters.
Shastri additionally instructed that India ought to take a couple of classes from Australia’s method and replicate on their weaknesses with a view to enhance forward of the third Take a look at. The previous India head coach additionally instructed that KL Rahul can return to the middle-order with Rohit enjoying as a gap batter as soon as once more.
“I like the choice of words by Pat Cummins in Perth. He said we weren’t good enough, but we weren’t as bad as the scoreboard showed. The reason I say good choice of words is because it wasn’t about what people said or what was written about, it was about what the scoreboard showed. I think India can take a leaf out of that. It would mean Rahul would go back to the middle order. But that’s what he was going to do if Rohit Sharma had started from the first Test itself,” Shastri mentioned.
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