Former England captain and cricket pundit Nasser Hussain praised Indian skipper Rohit Sharma's blazing knocks within the ICC T20 World Cup and described Australia's innings as “outright sensible”. Throughout the Males in Blue's remaining Tremendous Eight match in opposition to Australia, the Indian captain was on a mission mode to refresh the reminiscences of the 50-over World Cup remaining loss in opposition to Australia on house turf on November 19 final 12 months, the place he smashed 92 runs in 41 balls with seven fours and eight sixes, ripping aside Australia's harmful bowling line-up of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, and many others. The highlights of his innings have been scoring 29 runs together with 4 sixes off Starc within the third over and hitting a 100-meter lengthy six off Cummins on the primary ball of the fifth over.
Talking on the Sky Sports activities podcast, Hussain stated a change in India's sport and mindset in T20s occurred after their ten-wicket loss to England within the 2022 T20 World Cup semi-final, which was mirrored within the Rohit-led aspect's play throughout the 50-over World Cup the next 12 months, the place they demolished bowling assaults with unprecedented aggression to complete runners-up in opposition to Australia. However he additionally stated India couldn’t replicate this method on the more durable, extra playable pitches of New York's Nassau County Stadium.
“I feel the change in mindset occurred after the World T20 semi-final in Adelaide and that was clearly seen within the 50-over World Cup in India and naturally on this match as effectively as a result of they’ve moved away from New York,” Hussain stated.
“They couldn't try this due to the pitches in New York. The pitches have been dangerous and also you couldn't go on the market and specific your self. However as quickly as their batsmen received a little bit of confidence, they received again to the identical mindset and it was led completely by Rohit Sharma,” he stated.
Hussain stated Rohit adopted his phrases as captain throughout the match in opposition to Australia and targeted on the group's rating and strike fee fairly than a possible first century within the T20 World Cup. He additionally praised Rohit for dismissing the Australian quick bowlers.
He stated, “When you comply with your phrases as a captain and he did so earlier than the match in opposition to Australia. He stated, 'I’m not fearful concerning the rating of fifty and 100, I’m fearful concerning the rating, the balls confronted, the strike fee and this was the perfect white ball innings I’ve seen in opposition to Australia. Good, sensible sensible innings. Getting Starc out, slog sweeping Cummins, getting inside out at additional cowl. It was among the best innings I’ve seen. It was glorious.'
Rohit's 92 helped India put up 205/5 and limit Australia to 181/7 in 20 overs, regardless of Travis Head's reply of 76 off 43 balls with 9 fours and 4 sixes. Following Bangladesh's loss to Afghanistan, Australia have been eradicated from the match, with only one win and two defeats within the Tremendous Eights, together with one to Afghanistan.
Rohit has to this point scored 191 runs in six matches of the match at a median of 38.20 and a strike fee of 159.16 and has additionally hit two half-centuries. His greatest rating is 92 runs.
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