Last Updated: November 13, 2023, 07:32 IST
(From left) Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill. (AP Photo)
The likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill and Suryakumar Yadav bowled just a few overs throughout India’s last league match of 2023 world cup.
If the sight of Virat Kohli rolling his arm over throughout India’s last league match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 wasn’t amusing sufficient, captain Rohit Sharma ensured those that witnessed their ninth ODI win on the trot on Sunday night time would go away with reminiscences they seemingly received’t overlook for a while to return.
In a record-equalling feat, Rohit used as many as 9 totally different bowlers towards the Netherlands as they accomplished a complete 160-run win to complete prime of the factors desk forward of the semi-finals.
After Kohli delighted the gang on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru along with his first ODI wicket in 9 years, it was the flip of one other specialist batter in Shubman Gill to roll his arm over.
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And then Suryakumar Yadav made his ODI bowling debut and the icing on the cake was when Rohit himself took over the duties late into the Netherlands innings and took a wicket along with his fifth supply to conclude the competition.
It wasn’t that India gamers had been taking the competition flippantly contemplating the outcome was only for educational objective since they had been already into the semis.
With nothing using on the competition, it gave Rohit an opportunity to check out his bowling choices in case he has to look past his first-choice bowlers.
“When you have five bowlers, you want to create those options within the team,” Rohit defined the choice to make use of part-timers.
“Today we had nine (bowling) options, it’s important, this was the game where we could have tried certain things,” he added.
The tempo trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj has been in wonderful kind all through the tourney as has been the spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja.
“The seamers bowling those wide yorkers when it was not needed, but we wanted to do that. As a bowling unit, we wanted to try doing something different and see what we can achieve,” Rohit stated.
India shall be again in motion on Wednesday once they tackle New Zealand within the first semifinal scheduled to be held on the Wankhede Stadium.
