Rahul Tiwari
khelja|25-01-2025
You may be surprised after reading the headline - How can Rohit Sharma's failure be good for Team India? After all, how can Rohit's lack of big innings benefit the Indian team? But this is true and why this is so, we will tell you further. First of all, just know that Rohit Sharma got this failure in the Ranji Trophy match, where he was out after scoring 3 runs in the first innings and 28 runs in the second innings against Jammu and Kashmir. The scores are not big but the kind of batting he did in the second innings is good news for Team India.
The last few months have not been good for the captain of Team India. Forget playing big innings, Rohit is not able to stay at the crease even for some time. This was clearly visible in the last few Test series, where Rohit was losing wickets in the initial balls itself. Be it the ball coming in or the ball coming out, Rohit had failed in both. Not only this, he could not even play his favorite pull shot properly. He was out in this attempt in the first innings of the Ranji Trophy match.
There were huge expectations from Rohit, who was out for just 3 runs on the bowling of unknown bowler Umar Nazir in the first innings against Jammu and Kashmir, in the second innings but it could not happen. Despite this, Rohit scored 28 runs in his innings of 35 balls and the way he scored these runs was special. Before getting out, the timing of Rohit's bat looked excellent and he was seen hitting the ball without any problem. The six hit on a lofted drive over the covers was the best example of this. Rohit also scored 14 runs in the same over by hitting 6, 4, 4.
Even now if you are wondering how Rohit scoring only 28 runs and hitting some powerful strokes can be good for Team India. So understand it like this - before this innings, Rohit was struggling for the right timing, he was not able to hold the line of the ball properly, was not able to take the right decision to play his shot and hence hit the off stump twice. Caught in the dilemma of whether to pull or flick the ball outside, he was caught. But in this inning of 35 balls, Rohit showed that his old touch is returning. After this, Rohit will play the ODI series against England, which will be a little easier for him and if he enters white ball cricket with this rhythm, then he can do wonders in the Champions Trophy.