By India Today Sports Desk: India captain Rohit Sharma heaped reward on Yashasvi Jaiswal and mentioned that the Indian debutant did not present any fear throughout his match-winning knock of 171 towards the West Indies within the first Test.
Jaiswal starred with the bat for India as he grew to become the primary Indian batter to attain 150 on his debut match in an abroad Test. The 21-year-old additionally stitched collectively a 229-run partnership with Rohit because the guests scored 421/5 of their first innings earlier than declaring in response to West Indies’ first innings rating of 150.
R Ashwin would then run by way of the hosts within the second innings as India received the match by an innings and 141 runs to go 1-0 up within the collection. Speaking on the post-match presentation, as quoted by Cricbuzz, Rohit mentioned that getting the West Indies out cheaply within the first innings set the sport up.
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“Every run you score for the country is important. I would like to start by saying it was a great effort with the ball. Getting them out for 150 set the game for us. We knew batting would get tough, it wasn’t easy to score runs. We knew we wanted to bat only once and bat long. Get over 400 runs and then came out and bowled really well,” mentioned Rohit.
The Indian captain then praised Jaiswal and mentioned the debutant batted sensibly and did not panic when his temperament was examined. Rohit mentioned that he saved reminding Jaiswal that he belonged in worldwide cricket and instructed him to benefit from the time within the center.
“He has the talent, he has shown us in the past that he is ready. Came and batted sensibly. The temperament was also tested, at no stage he was panicking. The chats were to remind him that ‘you belong here. You have done the hard yards, enjoy your time here’,” mentioned Rohit.
