Following India’s seven-wicket win against Bangladesh
in the World Cup on Thursday, former England captain Nasser Hussain lauded
Rohit Sharma’s captaincy and batting while also praising Virat Kohli’s century.
Speaking on Star Sports show Follow the Blues, Nasser
Hussain shared his views on Rohit Sharma’s batting in World Cups.
“I have thought for a long time, he’s one of the best
white ball batters there has ever been. His record is up there with the best,
he’s done it in World Cups. His record against Bangladesh is magnificent, his
pull shot, at one stage we showed a graphic – he was averaging 400 in the pull
shot in the last couple of years. He got out of it in the end but not before he
had done a lot of damage.
The most important thing I like is intent, there is
real intent, for a while they played a bit of timid Cricket in the T20 World
Cup in Australia and they lost to England in Adelaide in that semi-final. This
looks like a different top three, the way Rohit, Shubman and Virat are playing
is going to put a lot of top-order bowlers under pressure,” said Hussain.
Speaking about Rohit Sharma’s captaincy in this World
Cup, he remarked, “…the way you have to think about bowlers are key moments
in the games. Kuldeep was bowling really well, and he realised the way Siraj
had come back with those cross-seam deliveries and then he went to Siraj, he
got the wicket, and then he went back to Kuldeep, Jadeja and Bumrah. He just
rotated his bowlers and as Dinesh Karthik said in commentary, it wasn’t just
the rotation, he was always rotating, looking to get a wicket. So, a bit like
his batting where he has the attacking option, it’s the same with his captaincy.”
Sharing his views on Virat Kohli’s century, Hussain commented,
“Kohli always plays (to) the situation and that’s why he is brilliant in run
chases. He sees the situation out there in front of him… On a pitch like this
if you wanted to go into another gear, if he was chasing 350, Kohli would’ve
gone into another gear, but he was just making sure India got over the line as
he often does.”
ANI
