Rohit Sharma performance watch

[rkt.india]

Cannot overlook Rohit's quality - Gambhir The change of venues from windy Hambantota to humid Colombo may not change the fortunes of Rohit Sharma and Manoj Tiwary. The team management expects much of Rohit in the 2015 World Cup and will back him "as much as possible", according to opening batsman Gautam Gambhir. Tiwary is sure to get opportunities, but whether it comes in the next game or the next series, "no one knows," Gambhir said. So basically, Rohit has the faith; Tiwary can keep the bench. What again came out in the press conference was how highly the team management rated Rohit. Gambhir said dropping a "talented" player like Rohit - who averages 17.33 this year - would only undermine his confidence. He might not be among the runs, but Rohit was batting "the best among all of us" in the nets, and asked for more faith as he saw him "scoring a lot of runs for India in the future." Where is he going wrong at present, though? "Nowhere." "He's done pretty well," Gambhir said. "Not on this tour, not in Australia, but he's got two Man-of-the-Series awards, in West Indies and in India. If you keep chopping and changing players like him who are so talented, you are only going to play with his confidence. He was unfortunate in the last game. You can drag the ball on [to the stumps]. It can happen to the best of players. But you have to see the bigger picture. If he is in your scheme of things for the next World Cup, obviously you have to go with him and try and give him as much confidence as possible. Gambhir said it was a matter of time before Rohit got the runs. "Whether a person is in form or out of it, the important thing is how he is feeling about his batting. You cannot be batting well, but you can still be getting runs. If you are very comfortable with your batting, if you know that you are batting well, somewhere down the line you will score runs. We still need to show some faith in him because he is a quality player." Getting dropped after a lean run may damage Rohit's confidence, but Tiwary's will sink lower when he makes a match-winning century, and is then left out for 13 straight games, and maybe more. All Gambhir said was that Tiwary should look to grab every chance he got. "It is not about individuals and I don't want to talk about individuals, about how Manoj is feeling," Gambhir said. "How the team is doing is all that matters. Somewhere down the line, he will get an opportunity. If he is not getting the opportunity and the team management [believes the] playing XI they pick is the best XI to do the job on that particular day, the team management does that because ultimately it is not about individuals. It is about what results you want and what combination you want to go with. "Whenever Manoj gets that opportunity, he should be looking forward to it and he should do well in that opportunity. Whether he gets it in the next game, whether he gets it in the next series, no one knows." The third ODI on Saturday may make the fate of both the batsmen clearer. http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-india-2012/content/current/story/574292.html

[Crookbond]

He's doing everything he can to be made the captain. :wink2:

[Executioner]

no1 doubts his quality. But everyone doubt's his ability to use his quality to perform well.

[JaFanatic]

talent without performance is nothing

[Ultimate_Game]

talent without performance is nothing

Spot on! :two_thumbs_up:

[Clarke]

Quantity too is a quality.

[Cricketics]

Well Gambhir is a team mate and you don't want a fellow team mate to be talking crap about a team who is part of the team regularly. So good on Gambhir to not put down Sharma

[Vilander]

i honestly want to know what is this talent that everyone is speaking about..:paratrooper: i would like my boss hitting 150% bonus for me based on my talent too..

[Ultimate_Game]

Well Gambhir is a team mate and you don't want a fellow team mate to be talking crap about a team who is part of the team regularly. So good on Gambhir to not put down Sharma

I wonder he thinks the same way when talking about his captain :giggle:

[vvvslaxman]

as i said in the other thread.. let us have international matches in the nets :cantstop:

[vishalvirsingh]

I was 37 ( 1 year b4) and opening my corp Team ....always gave steady start and when Team wanted fast starts for 20-20 I scored fast.....I used to bat with this 25 year old chaddi buddy of captAin who ws always the first player to get out ...Most often on 0 or 1......One day the captain told me to bat at 5 and he got another guy to open with him....... This guy flops for 6 innings and then scores in 1 still he retains his place where as steady guys like me may also be asked to Move...... The issue is temperament......when I go out to bat, I am Skeptical worried and even not confident of whether the new ball bowler wud be too good for me- but after 2 balls I am extremmely Confident and out of my last 10 innings - I hav scaored 5 50"s 1 67 and few low scores....and I have got out Most as Run out.....this other guy is very scared and he keeps worried for atleast first 6 to 10 balls and 80 percent of times he gets Out in the first 6 to 8 balls only......... I think Rohit is like that guy- he does not have the temperament of say a Dravid or Sachin or Gambhir..........he will suceed in low profile matches where average bowlers ball but in Internationals Cricket - if I am the opposing Captain I would give the Ball to my best pacer and cover a guy like Rohit by Maximum fielders close by and choke him to death- he is highly Talented but Will be a Failure in International Cricket He cannot handle that Pressure......

[1983-2011]

if I am the opposing Captain I would give the Ball to my best pacer and cover a guy like Rohit by Maximum fielders close by and choke him to death He cannot handle that Pressure......

sadly we dont see that type of aggressive captaincy in ODIs

[vishalvirsingh]

Aangelo mathews is clean bowling Rohit at 125K not once but twice...... See how he plays his first 10 balls- he bats like a RP Singh and suddenly after the 8 to 10 balls when he gains confidence.......the batsman Changes from RP Singh to Rohit sharma.....on top of that he shows he is TOO LAZY initially.... I think australian andw english captaiancy put in aggressive captaincy even in 1 days.....DHoni dos not......if he does Umesh wud get more wickets... Just remember the False strokes played by dilshan and even that opener ...one needs to cover that as well

[cowboysfan]

Rohit sharma-the net warrior,this is too precious.

[skindia]

each player is out of form in particular format....so they have adopted a new policy of backing each other so that they can save their places...whats performance of gambhir in tests?dhoni and sehwag also floped in tests recently....Raina plays only good against srilanka..only kohli is consistent but no comments from him:winky:

[ravishingravi]

Boy has to peform. But lets be clear, we are not exactly spoilt for choices. Give him 3 months. If he fails, move on. In my mind, he is still once in a lifetime talent.

[Needforspeed]

Quality is not judged by how you play in the nets. Rohit definitely seems to have some powerful godfather.

[skindia]

indian bowling is not so good so anyone can play good in nets...

[The Dark Horse]

Too bad his talent is useful onl y against Zimbabwe

[Old guy]

Too bad his talent is useful onl y against Zimbabwe

and west indies