India’s captain Shubman Gill praised star batter Rohit Sharma after his gritty knock against Australia, in the second ODI, of the ongoing three-match series in Adelaide. Speaking in the post-match presentation ceremony, Gill said that Rohit missed out on a big score.
“Never easy, coming back and to play some competitive cricket after a long time,” he told. “But the initial phase was very challenging. Very pleased the way he batted. Fought out in the initial phase. I would say he missed out on a really big knock.”
India were 17/2, losing two important wickets of Gill and Virat Kohli. From there on, Rohit stitched a partnership of 118 runs with Shreyas Iyer that brought the much-needed stability and helped India to reconstruct their innings. The 38-year-old scored 73, including seven fours and two sixes.
Talking about the match, Gill accepted that more runs were needed to pose a challenge to Australia.
“We had just enough runs on the board. Never easy when you drop a couple of chances to be able to defend that kind of a total. In the first game, it (toss) was more crucial because of the rain. But in this game, I wouldn’t say that much because both the teams played for almost 50 overs. The wicket was doing a little bit more initially. But I think the wicket settled pretty nicely after 15-20 overs,” he added.
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