If Test opportunity comes, I will take it, says Rohit Sharma
Indian cricketer, Rohit Sharma has stated that he is ready for a Test recall and wouldn't mind opening the innings for India if the team management wants him to. He also believes that India can bounce back and make a strong comeback in rest of the matches of current Test series against England.
Team India has struggled in the ongoing Test series against England so far, losing the first two matches. One of the major reasons behind their failure has been a weak batting line-up which has failed to have a strong grip of the game and score sufficient runs. The English bowlers successfully managed to pierce through the top batting order in both the games resulting to which India lost both the matches. One way to help India rise up from such a downfall can be a recall of a consistent player who is capable enough to stand strong for the team and Rohit Sharma has just been waiting for such an opportunity.
Rohit Sharma has stated that he has preparing himself over the period and is ready for a recall and also to open the Test innings for India, only if the team management wants him to. Opening in shorter formats proved to be a boon for Rohit Sharma, who said that he will not mind taking a shot at it in Test matches too, if the team management ever considers that as an option in near future.
“Look, I have never been offered (to open the innings in Tests) yet but I am open to anything as in whatever the team management wants. I never thought I will be an opener in ODIs when I started playing or when I was playing for India. But it happened along the way, so I (want to) keep my options open. No option is shut for me, so if the opportunity comes, I will take it,” Rohit told media persons at a promotional event.
Rohit has scored 1479 runs at shade under 40 per innings in 25 Tests with three hundreds and nine half centuries but is currently out of favour as far as longest format is concerned.While his technique in testing conditions outside the Indian sub-continent has time and again come under scanner, the stylish batsman is still hopeful of a Test recall.
“I want to be part of the (Test) team, but it is not in my hands. I have to wait for the opportunity, whenever it comes, I have to be ready for it. To be ready, I am doing everything, training, doing as much as possible to give myself the best chance when the opportunity comes there,” Rohit said.
Rohit came in support of the under-fire team which is down 0-2 in the five match and said that a comeback is still possible even though it won’t be easy.
“Yes of course, we have to believe that we can do it. It’s not going to be that easy. We have done it in South Africa we lost the first two Test matches and then we bounced back in Johannesburg and won that Test match. I think we can do it, it’s not that we can’t and we won the Test match. We have won Test matches in England before, we just need to get in that mindset, how we won the Test matches in England on previous tours and we have to play like that. There are still three Test matches to go, and I think it can turn around if we have the belief that we can do it,” Rohit concluded.
