India skipper Rohit Sharma saw the gen-next take charge in the whites as the likes of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, and Dhruv Jurel gave important contributions with the bat and in the field to help the team secure a 434-run win against England in the third Test. While the likes of Jaiswal and Sarfaraz orchestrated important partnerships in the middle, Jurel was brilliant behind the stumps, and even inflicted a brilliant run-out.
A day after India’s thumping victory against Ben Stokes’ men, Rohit took to social media to share a brilliant post for the trio of Jaiswal, Sarfaraz and Jurel. “Ye aajkal ke bacche (these kids of current generation), Rohit captioned the Instagram story with pictures of the three Team India players.
As for the match, India set a target of 557 runs for England on a placid pitch with more than four sessions left in the game. However, the visitors folded inside 40 overs for 122 to give India a 2-1 lead in the series.
“We have won a lot of matches on such wickets before. The turning tracks and on pitches where the ball turns remain our strength. It gives us balance,” Rohit told the media after the match.
“We have given results for many years and we will get results in the future as well. But we don’t have control over certain things — we don’t discuss whether we want rank turners or not. We come here (at the venues) two days before the match and how much can we do anyway in two days? “The curators decide and make the pitch. We have the strength to play on any wicket and win on it. When we won the Test in South Africa (at Cape Town), everyone knows what kind of wicket it was,” he said.
Rohit said the Indian team has found a way through all conditions witnessed in the first three Tests.
“(In) the last three Tests we played, there were different challenges. In the first Test (Hyderabad), the ball was spinning and the pitch was slow. In Vizag, it was (keeping) low. As the game progressed, the wicket became slower. Here, it played well for the first three days.
“Today, we saw that the ball was turning and it was low. This is (in) the nature (of pitches), we get pitches like these in India. But if we get rank turners, we will play on them as well,” Rohit added.
The India skipper said Sarfaraz Khan has acquired enough experience in domestic cricket that the team management did not feel the need to have discussed any plans with him before he made his debut here.
“I haven’t seen Sarfaraz bat that much. But all the people I’ve heard from, the players who are from Mumbai, (that) he’s made runs in a lot of difficult situations for Mumbai,” Rohit said.
“He’s hungry for runs and for the last 4-5 years, he’s continuously made runs in domestic cricket, so (that means) he’s doing something good,” Rohit said.
“We didn’t discuss any plans with him. Because I know that if you let him be, he’ll do his your job, which I’ve heard from the players from Mumbai,” he added.
