Rohit Sharma is a classical player, opines Zaheer Abbas

Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma has a lazy elegance in his batting, which is always pleasing to the eyes. He might not have been able to get his mojo early on in his career but he made up for it in the later years, scoring bucket loads of runs. Even during his lean phase, there were no questions regarding his technique but was only a question of finding his form. Recently, he was awarded the highest award for sportspersons in India - the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. 

“My eyes look at how he creates strokes, how he hits his sixes and boundaries. The players who have such a wide range of strokes can play in all formats, he rarely fails.” 

“If you say that Rohit Sharma is good. Then you should learn from him. Watch him, see how he plays, observe his technique. I used to watch and learn from Hanif Mohammad, Rohan Kanhai. I didn’t go and train with them, I just learned after observing their batting,” he said.