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Rohit Sharma has been going through the warmth for throwing away his wicket on Day 2 of the fourth and closing Test towards Australia. Many former gamers and followers slammed Rohit’s irresponsible shot at The Gabba. While making an attempt to clear the rope off Nathan Lyon’s supply, Rohit gave the ball straight to mid-on fielder, Mitchell Starc.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has additionally hopped on the bandwagon. Ponting mentioned that the Indian vice-captain must do higher if he must be a constant Test match batsman.
“It’s easy to say that’s the way he plays but you’ve got to be better than that,” cricket.com.au quoted Ponting as saying.
“If you want to be a really good, consistent Test match batsman you can’t just be going and throwing what could have been such a promising innings away like he did,” he added.
Rohit was wanting in good contact and 6 runs in need of his half-century when he needed to stroll again. After Rohit’s departure, the Ajinkya Rahane-Cheteshwar Pujara duo caught within the center till stumps as India completed at 62/2. Earlier, Australia managed to place an intimidating 369-run complete within the first innings.
“He got to 44 comfortably, everything seemed to be hitting the middle of the bat, he just started to play some nice drives down the ground,” mentioned Ponting.
“And the trap was set for him as well, that mid-on fieldsman was three-quarters of the way back, there was also a deep forward square leg, so what Rohit was thinking there we’ll never know. I’m sure Rohit would love to have his time over again,” he added.
Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar was additionally pissed off after watching Rohit’s ‘irresponsible’ shot.
“Why? Why? Why? That’s an unbelievable shot. That’s an irresponsible shot. There is a fielder there at long oo, there is a fielder there at deep square leg,” Sunil Gavaskar advised Channel 7.
