We’ve got the energy to play on any wicket and win on it: Rohit Sharma

India registered their largest victory by way of runs over England in Rajkot on a fairly placid floor. After scoring 430/4 of their second innings, India declared the innings, setting England a mammoth goal of 557 runs. The guests crumbled beneath stress and folded up for 122 in lower than 40 overs as house boy Ravindra Jadeja claimed 5 wickets.

Talking after India gained the numerous 2-1 lead within the five-match sequence, Rohit asserted that his aspect is a flexible one which doesn’t depend upon surfaces for Check victories.

“We’ve got gained a variety of matches on such wickets earlier than. The turning tracks and on pitches the place the ball turns stay our energy. It provides us stability. We’ve got given outcomes for a few years and we’ll get outcomes sooner or later as effectively. However we do not have management over sure issues – we do not focus on whether or not we wish rank turners or not. We come right here (on the venues) two days earlier than the match and the way a lot can we do anyway in two days?,” he stated.

“The curators resolve and make the pitch. We’ve got the energy to play on any wicket and win on it. Once we gained the Check in South Africa (at Cape City), everybody is aware of what sort of wicket it was,” he added.

The 36-year-old identified that Indian workforce have confronted completely different challenges within the first three Assessments of the sequence and have tried their greatest to cope with them.

“(In) the final three Assessments we performed, there have been completely different challenges. Within the first Check (Hyderabad), the ball was spinning and the pitch was sluggish. In Vizag, it was (retaining) low. As the sport progressed, the wicket grew to become slower. Right here, it performed effectively for the primary three days,” he stated.

“Right this moment, we noticed that the ball was turning and it was low. That is (in) the character (of pitches), we get pitches like these in India. But when we get rank turners, we’ll play on them as effectively,” Rohit defined.

The Indian captain was all reward for all-rounder Jadeja, who scored 100 within the first innings and claimed 5 wickets in England’s second innings. Stating that the left-arm spinner understands the circumstances very effectively, Rohit stated, “We have seen him through the years, he understands the circumstances very well. He is aware of precisely what his sport is. Right here, he’s no completely different. That is his hometown so greater than anybody else, he is aware of these circumstances higher.

“Should you see the previous couple of years, he is really come out and scored some essential runs for us. Whether or not it is in India or exterior India as effectively. He is batting very well and the arrogance is there with the bat, which is why we considered sending him up the order as effectively (within the first innings),” Rohit added.

Whereas Jadeja was the Participant of the Match for his all-round present, there have been a few very spectacular performances from the younger weapons. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his second double ton in successive Assessments, whereas debutant Sarfaraz Khan scored half-centuries in each innings.

–By A Cricket Correspondent