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India vs England third Take a look at at Rajkot, Feb 15-19, 2024,
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Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Printed on: Feb 19, 2024
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After India registered an emphatic win by 434 runs within the third Take a look at in opposition to England in Rajkot on Sunday, February 18, skipper Rohit Sharma asserted that his aspect has the power to win Take a look at matches on any floor.
India registered their largest victory by way of runs over England in Rajkot on a fairly placid floor. After scoring 430/4 of their second innings, India declared the innings, setting England a mammoth goal of 557 runs. The guests crumbled beneath stress and folded up for 122 in lower than 40 overs as dwelling boy Ravindra Jadeja claimed 5 wickets.
Talking after India gained the numerous 2-1 lead within the five-match collection, Rohit asserted that his aspect is a flexible one which doesn’t rely on surfaces for Take a look at victories.
“We’ve received numerous matches on such wickets earlier than. The turning tracks and on pitches the place the ball turns stay our power. It offers us stability. We’ve given outcomes for a few years and we are going to get outcomes sooner or later as properly. However we do not have management over sure issues – we do not talk about whether or not we would like rank turners or not. We come right here (on the venues) two days earlier than the match and the way a lot can we do anyway in two days?,” he stated.
“The curators resolve and make the pitch. We’ve the power to play on any wicket and win on it. Once we received the Take a look at in South Africa (at Cape City), everybody is aware of what sort of wicket it was,” he added.
The 36-year-old identified that Indian group have confronted totally different challenges within the first three Exams of the collection and have tried their greatest to take care of them.
“(In) the final three Exams we performed, there have been totally different challenges. Within the first Take a look at (Hyderabad), the ball was spinning and the pitch was sluggish. In Vizag, it was (holding) low. As the sport progressed, the wicket grew to become slower. Right here, it performed properly for the primary three days,” he stated.
“At this time, we noticed that the ball was turning and it was low. That is (in) the character (of pitches), we get pitches like these in India. But when we get rank turners, we are going to play on them as properly,” Rohit defined.
The Indian captain was all reward for all-rounder Jadeja, who scored 100 within the first innings and claimed 5 wickets in England’s second innings. Stating that the left-arm spinner understands the situations very properly, Rohit stated, “We have seen him through the years, he understands the situations rather well. He is aware of precisely what his sport is. Right here, he’s no totally different. That is his hometown so greater than anybody else, he is aware of these situations higher.
“Should you see the previous couple of years, he is really come out and scored some essential runs for us. Whether or not it is in India or outdoors India as properly. He is batting rather well and the arrogance is there with the bat, which is why we considered sending him up the order as properly (within the first innings),” Rohit added.
Whereas Jadeja was the Participant of the Match for his all-round present, there have been a few very spectacular performances from the younger weapons. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his second double ton in successive Exams, whereas debutant Sarfaraz Khan scored half-centuries in each innings.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
