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India vs England third Take a look at at Rajkot, Feb 15-19, 2024,
India,
England,
Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Revealed 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 facet has the flexibility to win Take a look at matches on any floor.
India registered their greatest victory when it comes to 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 strain and folded up for 122 in lower than 40 overs as house boy Ravindra Jadeja claimed 5 wickets.
Talking after India gained the numerous 2-1 lead within the five-match collection, Rohit asserted that his facet is a flexible one which doesn’t depend upon surfaces for Take a look at victories.
“We’ve received a number of matches on such wickets earlier than. The turning tracks and on pitches the place the ball turns stay our power. It provides us stability. We’ve given outcomes for a few years and we are going to get outcomes sooner or later as nicely. However we do not have management over sure issues – we do not focus on 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 mentioned.
“The curators determine and make the pitch. We’ve the power to play on any wicket and win on it. After 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 Assessments of the collection and have tried their finest to take care of them.
“(In) the final three Assessments we performed, there have been totally different challenges. Within the first Take a look at (Hyderabad), the ball was spinning and the pitch was gradual. In Vizag, it was (protecting) low. As the sport progressed, the wicket turned slower. Right here, it performed nicely for the primary three days,” he mentioned.
“At present, 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 nicely,” 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 nicely, Rohit mentioned, “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.
“In the event 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 nicely. He is batting rather well and the arrogance is there with the bat, which is why we considered sending him up the order as nicely (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 Assessments, whereas debutant Sarfaraz Khan scored half-centuries in each innings.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
