Champions Trophy: How Shreyas Iyer, Rohit Sharma are the faces of India risk management
Rohit Sharma with his buccaneer starts and Shreyas Iyer with his problem-solving in middle overs, liberate rest of the batting line up to play as they wish.
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As pitches in Dubai seem to be getting slower with each outing, all eyes are on the Indian spinners. However, for India to go the distance a lot is riding on the batting unit, which so far has adapted exceptionally to the sort of tracks that have been their biggest undoing in recent times.
With a century each to Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli, they have two in-form batsmen in the top three to go with Rohit Sharma to provide rapid starts. In the middle overs where they need to be flexible with their approach against spinners, they have a solid middle-order which includes an enforcer in Shreyas Iyer and two busy players in Axar Patel and KL Rahul before the finishing job is handed over to Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja.
This is as good a top 8 as a team could get in these conditions where batting depth is absolutely a non-negotiable factor. But two of those, Rohit and Shreyas, strategically placed at the top and at No 4 provide the right sort of impetus for the rest of the batting unit to go about their game without having to sacrifice much. Though the pitches have behaved differently in these three matches because of varying conditions which have been hotter during the day and chilly in the evening, they have consistently remained slow.
On such slow surfaces, runs with the new ball have become a gold reserve irrespective of whether the team is batting first or chasing. In each of his three innings, Rohit’s intention has been clear. Carrying on a role he first embrace
2025-03-04
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Anushka Tripathi
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