Melbourne, January 18
Indian skipper Mahendra
Singh Dhoni praised Rohit
Sharma, who has been in
good form in the ODI cricket
for the past two years,
terming him as someone,
who now knows the art of
“building on good starts”.
“If I see the performance in
ODIs in the last one and a
half years, almost all the
batsmen have scored runs.
But it is good to see Rohit
score consistently. He is
someone who knows how to
play big innings and he
knows how to build on the
good starts,” Dhoni said.
“Initially, Rohit leaves the
good deliveries out and then
once he is set, more often
than not, he scores big and
we can rotate around him. He
also scores at a very good
pace, so overall it becomes
slightly easy to build the
innings,” Dhoni said.
“The situation Suresh Raina
went in to bat today, it was very
crucial to get a partnership
going. And he had to curb his
instinct to some extent and
play defensively initially and
then he went on to play his
shots. I think both of them
played really well today,” the
skipper added, praising the
left-hander’s role in the century
stand with Rohit.
India were in trouble at 59
for three before the big partnership
rescued them. However
playing with only six
batsmen meant that once the
set batsmen, and Dhoni himself,
got out, the tail couldn’t
score too many runs.
“Once I go in to bat at No.
6, it seems you have to hit
and you can’t get out. It’s a
very difficult thing to balance.
We have groomed
Jadeja to do the job and I
feel with him coming back,
it will become slightly easy
for us because we all know
that he can also hit. Ashwin
we all know he can definitely
bat. He is a good batsman
but he is not someone who
will clear big grounds,” said
Dhoni. Dhoni also said that
young Akshar Patel, if
groomed, can be as effective
as Ravindra Jadeja and may
be have an option of playing
two left-arm spinners. The
skipper was also full of
praise for Patel, who bowled
economically throughout
the innings and along with
Bhuvneshwar Kumar created
enough pressure on the
Australian batsmen to make
the chase interesting.
“Since the rule changes
have been made, usually I
like to keep a minimum of
one or two overs for the spinners
because if the fast
bowlers are going for runs,
with the spinner I can push
the batsmen to hit one side
of the wicket. With big
boundaries, I can really
exploit that to some extent.
We will have to see if Akshar
can be our death bowler. But
if we can groom him, why
not?” he said. Even so, there
were still question marks
about the consistency of the
Indian bowling and the way
forward keeping an eye on
the World Cup. “I think we
gave a bit of width to the
Australian batsmen. We did
bowl good deliveries, but in
between there were quite a
few loose deliveries,” Dhoni
explained.
Indian skipper Mahendra
Singh Dhoni praised Rohit
Sharma, who has been in
good form in the ODI cricket
for the past two years,
terming him as someone,
who now knows the art of
“building on good starts”.
“If I see the performance in
ODIs in the last one and a
half years, almost all the
batsmen have scored runs.
But it is good to see Rohit
score consistently. He is
someone who knows how to
play big innings and he
knows how to build on the
good starts,” Dhoni said.
“Initially, Rohit leaves the
good deliveries out and then
once he is set, more often
than not, he scores big and
we can rotate around him. He
also scores at a very good
pace, so overall it becomes
slightly easy to build the
innings,” Dhoni said.
“The situation Suresh Raina
went in to bat today, it was very
crucial to get a partnership
going. And he had to curb his
instinct to some extent and
play defensively initially and
then he went on to play his
shots. I think both of them
played really well today,” the
skipper added, praising the
left-hander’s role in the century
stand with Rohit.
India were in trouble at 59
for three before the big partnership
rescued them. However
playing with only six
batsmen meant that once the
set batsmen, and Dhoni himself,
got out, the tail couldn’t
score too many runs.
“Once I go in to bat at No.
6, it seems you have to hit
and you can’t get out. It’s a
very difficult thing to balance.
We have groomed
Jadeja to do the job and I
feel with him coming back,
it will become slightly easy
for us because we all know
that he can also hit. Ashwin
we all know he can definitely
bat. He is a good batsman
but he is not someone who
will clear big grounds,” said
Dhoni. Dhoni also said that
young Akshar Patel, if
groomed, can be as effective
as Ravindra Jadeja and may
be have an option of playing
two left-arm spinners. The
skipper was also full of
praise for Patel, who bowled
economically throughout
the innings and along with
Bhuvneshwar Kumar created
enough pressure on the
Australian batsmen to make
the chase interesting.
“Since the rule changes
have been made, usually I
like to keep a minimum of
one or two overs for the spinners
because if the fast
bowlers are going for runs,
with the spinner I can push
the batsmen to hit one side
of the wicket. With big
boundaries, I can really
exploit that to some extent.
We will have to see if Akshar
can be our death bowler. But
if we can groom him, why
not?” he said. Even so, there
were still question marks
about the consistency of the
Indian bowling and the way
forward keeping an eye on
the World Cup. “I think we
gave a bit of width to the
Australian batsmen. We did
bowl good deliveries, but in
between there were quite a
few loose deliveries,” Dhoni
explained.
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