Rohit Sharma Reveals the Hardest Bowler He Confronted Throughout Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25
He managed to attain simply 31 runs in 5 innings of that collection.
In a latest interview, India captain Rohit Sharma revealed the hardest bowler to face within the newest Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) Sequence in 2024-25. The batter named pacer Scott Boland because the hardest one to bat towards in the course of the five-match Take a look at collection within the Australian soil.
He said how the India batters wished to counter him by getting ready their pictures in line with his pitch map. However they discovered no width off him, with a little or no quantity of full balls.
“Boland was the hardest to face. We checked his pitch map and we wished to see the place we will rating runs off him. 90% of it was simply there and there about. No width, no full balls, perhaps few however not many,” he mentioned within the Beyond23 Cricket Podcast.
Rohit Sharma on Boland’s technique
The India skipper additionally analysed his bowling method in that podcast. He defined how the 36-year-old creates an angle that bother the batters to play their pictures. Furthermore, Boland turns into much more deadlier if he manages to get a little bit of assist from the wicket.
“Due to the angle. So he comes with a straight run up, after which jumps barely wider after which he bowls there and he hits the seam like this, barely angular and if the pitch has one thing in it,” confused Rohit.
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Nonetheless, India didn’t carry out properly within the newest BGT Sequence in 2024-25. After profitable the celebrated collection back-to-back in 2018 and 2021, they didn’t defend it this time. The staff misplaced it by 3-1 even after profitable the primary match in Perth by a massive 295 runs.
Skipper Rohit Sharma additionally struggled together with his kind. He managed to attain simply 31 runs in 5 innings. The 37-year-old even determined to drop himself out of the taking part in XI within the fifth and ultimate Take a look at of the collection as a result of continuation of his poor run.
Staff India will once more don the whites for a five-match Take a look at collection towards England. It’ll kick-off in Headingley on June 20.
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