Sunil Gavaskar DEFENDS Rohit Sharma’s Failure With Bat During T20 WC 2024 Super 8 Match vs Afghanistan

Barbados: India captain Rohit Sharma’s poor run with the bat and his weakness against left-arm pace was exposed once again on Thursday against Afghanistan in a Super 8 T20 World Cup 2024 match. Rohit never got going during his painful 13-ball stay. All Rohit could muster was eight runs. He eventually fell trying to hit Fazalhaq Farooqi out of the ground. It was a slower cutter and all Rohit could do was hit it high up in the air and was caught. Following his poor run of form, former India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has come out and defended Rohit.

“He is an experienced batter. He knows what he has got to do. You cannot really tell Rohit Sharma to change his game because of the angle of the bowler. Yes, sometimes you might say, because of the angle, don’t hit towards the on-side, maybe look to play the inside out shot over extra cover. Either things you try and maybe understand that is what he should have done,” said Gavaskar on Star Sports after the game.

“But a man who has got so much of tons and tons of experience of playing limited-overs cricket doesn’t need to. He has got out. At the end of the day, batters have some way to get out. If you get out caught behind you can’t say you have got a weakness against the off-stump. If you have scored 10,000 to 15,000 runs and get out maybe 40 times outside off-stump that doesn’t feel there is a weakness,” he added.