Rohit Sharma screams ‘Uth ja, uth ja’ after Siraj falls and grimaces, fired-up pacer nearly gets Crawley next over

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getcricketnews|07-03-2024

Rohit Sharma is as emotive an Indian captain as ever. And his expressions are not similar to Virat Kohli, who was full of aggression most of the time.

Rohit instead, calls the shots with an uneasy charm. Half of the time, he has a frown on his face when the cameras turn to him. When it gets too much, he doesn't even shy away from shooing cameras away. Then, there are his most unique ways of schooling his teammates. "Don't be a hero," he said to Sarfaraz Khan when the youngster wanted to stay at shortleg without a helmet. It was that side of Rohit that came to the fore in the first session of the fifth Test against England in Dharamsala.

It came in the 11th over of England's innings when Zak Crawley clipped a Jasprit Bumrah inswinger off his pads. Mohammed Siraj, who was after the ball, slipped before picking up the ball. He was seen grimacing in pain, holding his knee. A fast bowler holding his knee in the first morning of a Test match is a dreaded sight for a captain. But Rohit had a different way of dealing with things.

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