Rohit open for any slot in Test
New Delhi, Nov. 22: He has enjoyed and revelled in his new role as a Test opener but Rohit Sharma is ready to be flexible about his batting position in the eagerly-anticipated Test series against Australia as per the demands of the team management.
The senior batsman is expected to play a big role alongside Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara when skipper Virat Kohli returns to India after the opening Test for the birth of his first child.
“I will tell you the same thing that I have told everyone all this while. I will be happy to bat wherever the
team wants me to but I don’t know if they would change my role as an opener,” Rohit said.
He believes that the team management will have figured out his role in the batting order by the time he would reach Australia after completing the strength and conditioning work at an National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. He had picked up a minor hamstring injury during the IPL.
“I am sure the guys already in Australia must have figured out what are options when Virat leaves and who are the guys who will open the innings,” Rohit said.
Kohli is chilled out guy: Zampa
Virat Kohli’s on-field image might be that of a combative batting superstar but Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa says the India captain came across as a
“chilled out guy” during their interactions in the recent Indian Premier League.
Zampa said on his first day in this year’s Indian Premier League, a WhatsApp message popped up on his phone from a number he did not recognise. It later turned out to be Kohli. “It was the first day I arrived (and) he WhatsApped me ‘Zamps, here’s the $ 15 off voucher at a vegan restaurant from Deliveroo. It’s a really good restaurant’. I didn’t have his number. He made it as if we’ve known each other forever,” Zampa told the