A change in perspective and strategy was required after final 12 months’s T20 World Cup: Rohit Sharma
A disastrous marketing campaign within the final T20 World Cup has compelled the Indian group to carry a few radical change in its perspective and strategy, skipper Rohit Sharma has stated.
Rohit is now gearing as much as lead the Indian aspect within the upcoming version of the T20 showpiece in Australia, however earlier than that, they’ve the Asia Cup to take care of. Speaking on Star Sports present ‘Follow the Blues’, Rohit stated, “We’ve made it very clear after the T20 World Cup in Dubai, where we didn’t qualify for the finals, that we felt there needed to be a change in our attitude and approach in how we play our game.” India will enter the Asia Cup as defending champions.
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With Team India adopting a extra aggressive batting fashion up to now few months, Rohit spoke about how the squad is preparing for the upcoming challenges.”If the message is obvious from the captain and the coach about the place the group is attempting to move, then the people will certainly attempt to do this. For that to occur they want freedom and readability and that’s what we try to do.
We try to present them as a lot freedom as potential.” When requested about his expertise of captaining a group with so many younger leaders, Rohit stated, “I do know it’s very thrilling actually to create so many leaders across the group as a result of it’s at all times a very good signal.
“And you want the guys to handle the pressure, who understand the game and know each other really well. And when they are leading the team, all these things can happen.” India have had six completely different captains up to now eight months owing to a mixture of things.
“I think it’s very important to have that leadership, but obviously, you know we play the IPL and it’s a 10-team tournament. So there will be 10 captains which at some stage will be a part of the Indian team as well.”You know, I feel it’s improbable as a result of actually, my job is way lesser as these guys perceive all the things fairly nicely. So, it’s nearly if somebody’s having a thought, how am I going to again up that thought. For me as captain that’s my function and that’s what I’m attempting to do,” he stated.
Looking forward, Rohit talked about that the function of coach Rahul Dravid is significant for the Indian group.”With Rahul bhai I’ve performed some video games with him as he was my first captain once I made my ODI debut. So, clearly we’ve some type of understanding. I’ve spent lots of time within the NCA once I was injured and he was there.
“We had regular chats happening all the time and he was closely following my game as well,” he stated.The ‘Hitman’ additionally spoke in regards to the significance of getting a coach whose imaginative and prescient and perception aligns with the group.
“When he (Dravid) became a coach here, we met and sat together in a room for a while and decided how we want to take this thing forward and he was pretty much on the same thought process as to what I was thinking.”That made it slightly simpler for me to present out a transparent message to the boys as a result of we don’t need to create confusion among the many group; and naturally, we wished him to vary the fashion of cricket as nicely.
“We wanted to play a certain way in all three formats and he was ready to accept all of that.”
