India weren’t enjoying conservative cricket in T20Is earlier, says Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma doesn’t comply with the widespread notion that India have been enjoying conservative cricket in T20Is earlier. The India captain pointed to the group’s file main into the 2021 T20 World Cup as proof that that they had been performing properly.

In the interval between the 2016 and 2021 editions of the T20 World Cup, India have been marginally behind solely Pakistan when it comes to win-loss ratio among the many ten legacy ICC Full Member nations. India had received 45 out of 72 T20Is on this five-year interval, whereas Pakistan received 46 out of 71 video games.

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However, Rohit added that the present group administration below him and head coach Rahul Dravid is attempting to get the group to play with a bit extra freedom.

“We have not got the results in the World Cup, that does not mean we have been playing poor cricket all these years. I do not agree that we were playing conservative cricket,” Rohit mentioned in Trinidad forward of the five-match T20I collection towards West Indies.

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“If you lose the odd game in the World Cup, it starts feeling as if we did not take our chances but it is not like that. If you look at the overall games we have played leading into the World Cup, we won probably 80 per cent of our games. I cannot understand how you can win so many matches if you are playing conservatively. Yes we could not qualify (out of our group) in the (2021 T20) World Cup but it happens. It does not mean we were playing with fear or with inhibition.”

Rohit mentioned that India have tried to create a group surroundings whereby gamers can carry out with out taking an excessive amount of stress. “Even of late, we have not made any change, we are playing in the same way. Just that people have been given a bit of freedom to play their game and not take pressure. You do not take as much pressure when you play for your state or franchise, so you do not need to take it when you play here as well. There is a different pressure in international cricket but it is our job to reduce it or even completely eliminate it. And we are trying to create that kind of environment, and will keep trying. Our focus is also on keeping the environment light.”

The skipper known as for “people on the outside” to maintain their persistence with the group because the gamers have been trying to study and outcomes may go towards them at occasions. “If you play without inhibition, the performances will come. That is why I’ll say that people on the outside should remain calm. The kind of cricket we are playing, there will be failures, results will go against us, but it is okay, there is no problem in that, as we are trying to learn something, and trying to do something different. So it is possible that we will make mistakes. It does not mean that the players or the team are bad. We all have to change with time. We are changing, so I think people on the outside will also have to change their thinking a bit.”

Rohit mentioned that there have been just a few spots remaining to be stuffed within the squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. “We know what we need to do in order to fill those spots. We are trying to address those things in these matches.” The first T20I towards West Indies might be performed on Friday.