IND vs AUS: Nothing will happen by creating ruckus on the pitch… If you want to win Test matches in India then learn this from Captain Rohit – rohit sharma explains how to bat on turning track in india india vs australia nagpur test

Nagupar: India defeated Australia by an innings and 132 runs in the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Test series. With this win, the team took a 1-0 lead in the series. Before the match, there was a lot of ruckus regarding the pitch of the Nagpur Test match. After the victory, Team India captain Rohit Sharma said that there was nothing wrong with the pitch as it was important to play according to the plan and not the helpful pitch to achieve success on spin-friendly sub-continental wickets.

Prior to the start of the Test match, debate had erupted in the Australian media regarding the pitch, with allegations that the host nation had prepared turning pitches to trouble the visiting team’s left-handed batsmen. But Rohit scored a century of 120 runs in India’s first innings before being bundled out for 400 runs while Australia were bundled out for 177 runs in the first innings. After winning the first Test by an innings and 132 runs on the third day itself, Rohit said that a batsman needs to adopt some unconventional methods to score runs on such pitches.

“The kind of pitches we have been playing on in India in the last few years, you need to adopt some unconventional methods to score runs and a bit of planning is required,” he said. Rohit said, ‘I have grown up playing in Mumbai where the pitch takes a lot of turns. You also have to be a little unorthodox, use your feet. There is a need to put pressure on the bowlers by doing something different. In this different thing, do whatever you feel like using your feet, sweep shot, reverse sweep shot.

Apart from this, skipper Rohit looked quite happy with his batting as he had missed a few Tests in the recent past. He said, ‘Yeah, considering a lot of things in the past, it was a special hundred. The start of the series is very important to see where we stand in the World Test Championship table, so it was important for us to start well. Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin shone in the spin department but Rohit credited the opening pace duo of Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj for getting them off to a great start.

He said, ‘The first two overs of the fast bowlers were important. Two wickets for two runs, starting the match like this, you dominate. The opponent comes under pressure from there. Rohit said, ‘We knew that our spin department is excellent. But fast bowlers can also be dangerous on this type of pitch.

At the same time, the second Test match of the series between India and Australia will be played from March 17 to 21 at the Arun Jaitley Feroz Shah Kotla ground in Delhi.

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