Rohit Sharma will have to ensure everyone in team knows they don't own batting positions: Ravi Shastri

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Rohit Sharma will have to ensure everyone in team knows they don't own batting positions: Ravi Shastri

Former India coach Ravi Shastri has backed captain Rohit Sharma ahead of the World Cup 2023 and Asia Cup 2023 and predicted that the 36-year-old will be in his element on the big stage.

Ravi Shastri has also given his suggestion to Rohit, saying that the 36-year-old will have to be flexible with the batting positions of his players and make sure that none of them think they own a particular spot.

 

“I think he is a seasoned captain. Come the World Cup, he will up the ante. Bilaterals are one thing. When it comes to big tournaments, you switch on in a different manner. He knows the nucleus of the players. It is about him ensuring that everyone in that batting lineup knows that they don't own batting positions,” Shastri told Star Sports.

 

"You've got to be flexible with your batting ladder. No matter who the name of the player is. You do not own positions. You got to have flexibility. That is paramount, and use the right guys against the right oppositions.

 

“The think tank would have thought about a group of 18 or 20 players at least four or five months before the World Cup and then given opportunities to each one of them, kept an eye on the injuries too, you know, whichever players who were part of the mix who got injuries and just come back, and then pick the right guys,” Shastri added.

 

India are racing against time to fix their middle-order issues due to the injuries of KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav, and failures of Suryakumar Yadav in the ODI format.

Shastri has recently also said that he was in favour of Virat Kohli batting at number four in the 2019 World Cup. 

[tweaker]

He has also talked about Jaiswal and Verma in the playing 11.

 

He has advocated for playing Tilak Verma at no 4 position. 

 

He has talked about selection of Rahul.without having any match practice 

[Lord]

Shastri makes a lot of suggestions he didnt execute in his term.

[Majestic]

Seems there are some suggestions around this team :-

 

Gill

Kishan

Rohit

Kohli

Rahul(wkt)

Jadeja

Pandya

Kuldeep/Axar

Shami

Bumrah

Siraj

 

Axar to come in when opposition has lot of righties.

[raki05]

I would have played Tilak in place of Jadeja also Jaiswal at the top and Kishan in place of hahul. Ask Jaiswal and Varma to cover 6 the bowling options. I would have also ensure bandya dont get easy escape by bowling few overs whenever he wants. Below would be my wc xi

Jaiswal(Bowl)

Gill

Kishan

Rohit/Kohli

Kohli/Rohit

Tilak (Bowl)

Bandya/Sky (Bowl)

Kuldeep 

Bumrah

Shami/Krishna

Siraj

[vvvslaxman]

India lacks floaters. Raina could bat at no.3 and also bat at 7. Gambhir opener could bat at 3. Although not a tough ask he could do that. Wish they had tried Ruturaj in the middle overs. He is a better player of spin.

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2 hours ago, Majestic said:

Seems there are some suggestions around this team :-

 

Gill

Kishan

Rohit

Kohli

Rahul(wkt)

Jadeja

Pandya

Kuldeep/Axar

Shami

Bumrah

Siraj

 

Axar to come in when opposition has lot of righties.

Shastri does rate Samson so he would fit him in above somewhere,

[Sooda]

6 hours ago, Lord said:

Shastri makes a lot of suggestions he didnt execute in his term.

 

Exactly the need for Virat at 4 was great in 2019. He did nothing about it.  Hypocritical 

[Nikhil_cric]

With the top 4 they are suggesting, Gill will have to bat at 4.   The others don't start well vs spin.