Rohit Sharma worked hard to bat, batting coach Vikram Rathour praised
Nagpur. India’s batting coach Vikram Rathour on Friday said Rohit Sharma had to work hard for his 120 against Australia as the pitch was not easy to bat on and required special effort to score runs on it. With the help of Rohit’s century and Ravindra Jadeja and Akshar Patel’s half-centuries, India took a 144-run lead in the first innings on the second day of the first Test cricket match.
Rathour said after the end of the day’s play that it was a special knock from Rohit and it was good to see him scoring runs. He showed good spirit and it was a very important innings because it was not easy to bat on this pitch. Rohit has played some brilliant innings since he started opening but his three centuries stand out, including 161 in Chennai. , including a century at The Oval and a century on a slow pitch here on Friday.
Rathour said that this is the specialty of his batting. He scored runs on the fast pitches of England but if we talk about his innings then he had to work hard to score runs. Usually Rohit gets runs easily after scoring a few runs in the beginning but here he had to work hard. Is.
He said that I do not think so. You can’t say that until the last ball is bowled. Rathore was asked if Akshar was preferred over Kuldeep Yadav because he is a good batsman, to which he denied. He said, “He (Akshar) is a very good bowler too, so it (his batting) was not considered. Yes, his batting is a bonus.” Rathour also defended opener KL Rahul, who was included in the playing XI despite his poor form.
