Former Pakistan captain feels Indian skipper Rohit Sharma hasn’t performed for the team in pressure situations and reckons that he needs to work on that aspect ahead of the ODI World Cup in India. The 36-year-old has struggled to produce match-winning performances for India in the last couple of years since his reign as a full-time skipper.
Rohit Sharma’s career took a massive turn for the better after being made to open the batting in 2013, where he established himself as one of the best openers from the Indian team of all time, there are only a few players that can match his skills, but the Indian veteran has struggled to get going in recent times.
Speaking on his youtube channel, Salman Butt said that Rohit Sharma is a big player for India in International cricket but raised questions regarding the performance of the Indian skipper in the pressure situations where he failed miserably in recent times and wants him to work on that aspect coming into the mega event later this year.
“I accept that Rohit is a big player, but some players are there who have been around for a long time but when the pressure gets to them, they can’t deliver. Especially at the knock-out stages, this is something that has to be worked on,” Salman Butt said.
In the three-match ODI series against West Indies, The Indian skipper did not have the opportunity to show his presence in the team, as they tried a new set of players with Ishan Kishan and Shubman Gill opening the innings for India. The Southpaw has been brilliant in the series against the Men in Maroon scoring three consecutive half-centuries in the series to make his case strong for the ODI World Cup later this year.
Rohit Sharma could not bring the best out of their players since he took up the mantle from ace batter Virat Kohli, as he failed to win a major trophy in the last two years for the Indian team, and his team selection and backing of the players, where also not well received by the cricket experts and fans.
In the WTC final in 2023, he scored only 58 runs in the game, failing to inspire to team to win the ICC trophy. In the 2022 T20 World Cup, He had a campaign to forget in Australia as captain in six matches, he scored 116 runs at an average of 19.33 and a strike rate of 106.42, and the Indian veteran batter will be looking to inspire the Men’s in Blue winning the championship in the home soil later this year.
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