Rohit Sharma asks visiting teams to Keep Mouths Shut when they travel India

[harpicP]

4 hours ago, Vijy said:

yep, it will backfire big time if we make bunsens. but dravid/bcci will probably order just that.

Not really. They may win one game here and there but India often will finish teams off over a long series in Bunsens. 

 

But yea it's not recommended. We don't need to dish out pitches like that to win.

[vvvslaxman]

Come to India - Part 2 - By Rohit SHarma

[vvvslaxman]

There is a threshold beyond which you shouldn't tamper too much. That is where it backfires. It makes guys like Root, Kunemann, Toddy Murphy, Okeefe legends.  For Ashwin and Jadeja little help is needed. That's it. For Axar he needs a lot of tampering. World cup Final backfired just like that.

[Number]

6 hours ago, Gollum said:

He is right about the double standards championed by gora establishment. But we also should avoid extreme pitches at home, the pitches we gave SA in 2019, no team in history can challenge us. Our spinners and pacers will do well, young batsmen will get runs under their belt and learn the art of playing long innings, matches will go for 4-5 days and entertain the fans. Nothing to gain by by making Pune/Indore type pitches which needlessly brings opponent into the match and also is detrimental to development of our players. 

Also now we have Kuldeep back on track. A trio of Ashwin, Jaddu and Kuldeep with Bumrah and Siraj is as good as it gets even on flatter tracks. Kuldeep has test 5fers even on flatter tracks. He can be definitely used as a wicket taking option on flat tracks. 

[Chaos]

Bavuma…what a con artist with his injury. He knew he would have made look like a midget with this bounce n swing lol. He would have flown away with that steep bouncer 

Edited January 5 by Chaos

[raki05]

10 hours ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Rohit Sharma in 2013 SA tour - Come to India

Rohit Sharma in 2023 SA tour - Come to India

 

10 year challenge

But what he said is right other than aus rest all SEN country keep their most crappy pitches for India series. SA and NZ are most notorious and than cry tiver as soon as they receive mauling on Indian pitches. English and SAican commentators cry a lot.

[rollingstoned]

Exposing the double standards is fine but he doesn't need to defend poor pitches as if a pitch can never ever be poor by calling it 'challenging conditions'. Ofc as a captain he probably cannot come out and say it like that but still. 

[vvvslaxman]

18 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

Exposing the double standards is fine but he doesn't need to defend poor pitches as if a pitch can never ever be poor by calling it 'challenging conditions'. Ofc as a captain he probably cannot come out and say it like that but still. 

He is randomly defending world cup final pitch which was rated poor lol Is it to please Jay Shah?

[rollingstoned]

3 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

He is randomly defending world cup final pitch which was rated poor lol Is it to please Jay Shah?

Well the speculation is that Indian thick tank were the ones who wanted that pitch and played 5d chess to ensure we would chase lol, so if that were the case its far out to expect him to own up to that. It is not something Jay Shah would have had anything to do with. One can assume it is guilt because Dravid has tried tampering with pitches even in jamt20 matches for which curators were sacked. 

[bowl_out]

21 hours ago, Nikola said:

 

going by rohit's logic markram scored hundred in this test too...

Exactly what I was thinking. Bakwaas logic

[bowl_out]

5 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

He is randomly defending world cup final pitch which was rated poor lol Is it to please Jay Shah?

Exactly.  Why did he have to defend such a disaster of a pitch when it wasn't even the point of discussion

[putrevus]

Some teams need pitches to suit their players for them to win. Unless you win those matches teams cannot develop to next level. 

 

Indian team should not be needing any tampering of pitches to win . Idiot Shah screwed up enough and this moron Rohit is  defending him.

[Suhaan]

 

20 hours ago, Gollum said:

Tamper with the pitches and we all saw what happened in the WC final, kuch toh sabak seekho. 

 

[coffee_rules]

Rohit Thala Style: India Aane do... saalon ko..

[coffee_rules]

23 hours ago, goose said:

the article i read says he was targetign match referrees.

 

anyone have a link to the full post match press conference, the algos normally put it on youtube for me but can't find it. i assume this where he said all this

 

18 hours ago, goose said:

i wouldn't be surprised if that press conference by rohit was concocted by the BCCI

https://youtu.be/x1dVDp-cKeI?si=LkNy11dxXsoHbuHP

 

[Gollum]

13 hours ago, raki05 said:

But what he said is right other than aus rest all SEN country keep their most crappy pitches for India series. SA and NZ are most notorious and than cry tiver as soon as they receive mauling on Indian pitches. English and SAican commentators cry a lot.

Yeah they reserve the worst for us, then the other SC teams. They lay out red carpet for Aus and Eng. 

 

Maharaj has not taken a wicket in last 7-8 tests against Asian sides at home, has hardly bowled even. Against Aus he will bowl 40 overs per innings and pick 5fers. Against England, match will be 650 meets 700 and Stokes will score 258* in 180 balls. These people are so blatant with doctoring that it isn't even funny. NZ does the same. Even England, when Broad-Anderson were in their prime, green tops. Now in Bazball era, flat tracks which get easier to bat with time, and then they say it is because of global warming, sabko pagal banate hai yeh log. But randi rona when it comes to pitches in India. Even when we give good pitches like RSA 2019 Elgar was crying daily about pitches, hotels, food. When our boys went there in 2017-18 water was rationed and they couldn't use it for more than 2 minutes for showers because of some drought. Our boys never complain about these things, 1000 times braver than there gora snowflakes. 

[putrevus]

13 hours ago, raki05 said:

But what he said is right other than aus rest all SEN country keep their most crappy pitches for India series. SA and NZ are most notorious and than cry tiver as soon as they receive mauling on Indian pitches. English and SAican commentators cry a lot.

But you don't get respect as a player when you have batting avg of 15 in the country across multiple tours over a decade.It will be seen as sour grapes.

 

You need to outbat and outbowl them in their backyards which India can do it now against any team.Rohit was never a great test player though.

 

 

[goose]

what is missing from rohit's rant on pitches is glaring omission of any regard for the paying public. it would be good to show some regret that the test has denied fans both in the ground and at home some test cricket.

[coffee_rules]

46 minutes ago, goose said:

what is missing from rohit's rant on pitches is glaring omission of any regard for the paying public. it would be good to show some regret that the test has denied fans both in the ground and at home some test cricket.

I had paid for a 5-day ticket for a test match in Bengaluru 2017, went to the match on D4-D5, I think. If somebody chooses to do here, they would miss the test match, 

[R!TTER]

4 hours ago, bowl_out said:

Why did he have to defend such a disaster of a pitch when it wasn't even the point of discussion

As some others opined probably guilty conscience & no *ing way Nepo baby would've ordered this kind of a pitch for the final, it was up to TM

1 hour ago, goose said:

it would be good to show some regret that the test has denied fans both in the ground and at home some test cricket.

I have a developing theory that it's also in large part due to IPL - less wear/tear for bowlers, more fit bowlers - more IPL "ROI" for owners! Didn't Ashwin skip 2017(?) IPL after that massively long home season & he said it was because of that? It's also true for batter but to a lesser extent.