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Won't last 10 balls.
For SURE.
Even Ashwin is a better Test opener than him.
He will last 20 balls.![]()
Rohit was equally hopeless in ODI's as well before he shifted to the top.
But in ODIs he doesn't have to face swing so much.
Against Steyn in Joberg ODI, the same Rohit couldn't put bat on ball.
Very risky move.
We have KL Rahul. Go for specialists.
Risky move it'll be but somehow I think he is worth the gamble before we dump him for good. He has potential to be a match winner. Sehwag was a similar story as well.
these type of bowlers........lol
Rohit is the Ishant of Indian batting side.He can be put anywhere in the team but his performance outside India will be the same.
Why, Ishant is hopeless in India as well.
But he occasionally shows brilliance at times that's why similar.I miss Srinath however slow he was he had the discipline unlike these 'Dudes'.
Kumble too. Our biggest loss from both home and overseas tests.
Spot on!!!! Yess Ashwin should be tried as opener.He surely will last longer than Rohit and Dhawan!Won't last 10 balls.
For SURE.
Even Ashwin is a better Test opener than him.
He will last 20 balls.![]()
Kumble too. Our biggest loss from both home and overseas tests.
Some fans won't like this. They have already decided that he is a FTB.Sharma Will Be India's Game Changer Overseas, Says Batting Coach
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/sports/sharma-will-be-indias-game-changer-overseas-741192.htmlRanchi, India, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Oct, 2019 ) :Rohit Sharma has sealed the opener's slot with his third century of the South Africa series and will be India's game changer on away tours, Indian batting coach Vikram Rathour said Saturday.
Sharma hit an unbeaten 117 on the opening day of the third and final Test to lead the hosts to 224 for three when bad light followed by rain forced early stumps in Ranchi.
The senior batsman, who hit twin centuries in his debut as Test opener in the first match, put on 185 runs with Ajinkya Rahane, 83 not out, after India were in early trouble at 39-3.
"I always believed he is too good a player not to be playing in any format. It was a good call to make him to open," Rathour said of the limited-overs star.
"With the amount of runs he has scored, he has settled the issue (of opening the batting) for the time being.
"Somebody of his experience and the kind of cricket he plays, if he starts coming good top of the order, it changes everything for the Indian team, even when you're touring." Virat Kohli's India will travel to New Zealand for a full series next year including two Tests in February-March.
Sharma, who is playing his 30th Test since his debut in 2013, curbed his attacking instincts to get through a fiery morning spell from South Africa's Kagiso Rabada who struck twice.
Anrich Nortje joined forces to earn his maiden Test scalp after trapping Indian skipper Virat Kohli lbw for 12.
Sharma played it cool to fifty then soon launched an attack with a barrage of sixes, reaching his sixth Test hundred with his fourth hit over the fence amid loud applause from the home crowd.
Rathour believes the experienced batsman has got his game plan together after settling in to the opener's role alongside Mayank Agarwal.
"He is such an experienced player. I don't think you need to change anything with his technique. The only adjustment I think he had to make was his gameplans," said Rathour.
"Once he's set, he's a phenomenal player, we all know that he can really punish you. So he just needed to make that mental adjustment to his gameplans. He has done that well." Sharma made 176 and 127 in the first and second innings of the opening match to set the tone for India's domination in the series.
The 50-year-old Rathour, a former batsman who played six Tests for India between 1996-97, also praised Rahane's approach on a tough wicket.
Rahane, India's Test vice-captain, hit 11 fours and one sixes during his 135-ball stay at the wicket.
"Whenever he bats with this intent he looks really a good player. So today he showed that," said Rathour.
Lets see how he performs in overseas conditions , that will decide whether he really is test match material or not.
It's a great failure on the part of Indian cricket to have lost out on several years of Rohit Sharma the test player because of persisting with average batsmen such as Vijay, Dhawan and Rahul at the top of the order. Sharma had the ability to have been one of the greatest batsmen in Indian history if he had been given a clear role in the test side. I don't think any other batsman has played with such efficient aggression once he gets set at the crease. Possibly the most destructive batsman I've ever seen.
We don't know how he would do as an opener outside India. Rohit can't play swing or seam, never has even in ODIs. On spinning and flat pitches, he's one of the greatest batsman of all time.
This whole issue is overblown. He will do well in Australia, West Indies and other Asian sides. He might struggle in England and New Zealand and most likely in South Africa, but how many Indian openers - or openers from any country - have scored everywhere?
What a player. Watched him live at Old Trafford. Sheer class.
Can surpass Sehwag if he can score away.