May 23, 2024

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Rohit Sharma ready within the wings, a succesful man to take Indian T20I cricket to better heights: Ravi Shastri

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India have had extra good days than unhealthy with Ravi Shastri on the helm of affairs and, as his tenure of Team India’s head coach for practically seven years, has come to an finish.

India produced a medical efficiency as they defeated Namibia by 9 wickets of their final Super 12 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Dubai on Monday.Interestingly, it was additionally Virat Kohli’s final match because the T20I captain as he had introduced his resolution to surrender the T20I captaincy earlier than the World Cup. He has additionally stepped down as captain of his IPL franchise, Royal Challengers Bangalore.Outgoing Team India head coach Ravi Shastri stated that Rohit Sharma is greater than succesful to take Indian cricket to better heights in T20I cricket.“In Rohit, we have got a capable guy, he has won so many IPL titles. He has been the vice-captain of this side for a long time,” Shastri advised reporters.India captain Virat Kohli, on the time of the toss, had all however confirmed Rohit Sharma as his successor for the nationwide T20 captaincy, saying that the senior opener has been ‘overlooking things for a while now.’Rohit Sharma is ready to take over India’s management in T20I from the three-match collection towards New Zealand at dwelling, starting November 19.Shastri believes that the cut up captaincy is the necessity of the hour because of bubble fatigue and the quantity of cricket being performed.“Split captaincy is the need of the hour due to bubble fatigue, the amount of cricket played these days. Players need to be rotated. You don’t get to see your parents for 6 months,” stated Shastri.The Indian crew was ‘mentally and physically drained’ in the course of the T20 World Cup and did not even “try to win” because it wasn’t switched on throughout stress conditions in massive video games, outgoing head coach Ravi Shastri stunningly conceded earlier than the aspect’s ultimate match.“I am mentally drained but I expect that at my age, but these guys are physically and mentally drained. Six months in a bubble…What we would have ideally liked was a bigger gap between the IPL and the T20 World Cup…(because) when the big games come, when pressure hits you, you are not that switched on as you should be.” Shastri said.Shastri said that he doesn’t want to cite excuses but the team was not in the best shape to even try and win games here. “It’s not an excuse, we take defeat and we are not scared of losing. In trying to win, you will lose a game, but here we didn’t try to win because that X-factor was missing.”On the sixth bowling option, Shastri said: “Earlier, we used to have guys in the top six, who were able to roll their arms in the middle overs. That is the area, where we need to work.”

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