The former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has warned the rest of the teams in the ongoing T20 World Cup that they shouldn’t take the Indian captain Rohit Sharma lightly even if he is struggling with his form at this point in time.
Ricky Ponting, who spent a couple of years at Mumbai Indians and worked with Rohit Sharma both in the capacity of a captain and a coach, was talking to an Indian journalist Vimal yesterday and when he was asked about Rohit’s indifferent form, Ponting said that the Indian skipper can come good in a big game for India because he is a champion player.
Rohit Sharma has played 4 games in the ongoing T20 World Cup so far and while he scored a fifty against the Netherlands, he has looked scratchy overall. Rohit, after the last T20 World Cup, has changed his batting approach and he now takes a lot more risks in the shortest format of the game than he used to take before.
Rohit Sharma is trying to bat with his newly adopted attacking template in the T20 World Cup
The 35-year old has not gone away from his new attacking template in the ongoing World Cup either, but his execution of shots hasn’t been perfect and he has been getting out while trying to go for the big shots, rather than clearing the field.
Because of the fact that Rohit is a good player of pace and bounce, it was expected that he would enjoy the conditions in Australia and would score a lot of runs in the World Cup for India, but it has not happened so far. Ricky Ponting is, however, backing the classy opener to still make a difference in the World Cup at some stage.
A few people on Twitter seemed to agree with Ponting’s opinion on Rohit, but there were some contrasting views as well. Here are the Twitter reactions after Ponting called Rohit a champion player –
Rohit entire career is full of delusions & filters 😭. Big match player 🙏🏻🙏🏻💀
— Aniket🏴 (@80off59) November 3, 2022
Haha big match player. In his entire history barring 2007 final he has always flopped in important matches and now in the end of his career he has gotten even worse b/c he couldnt even score against bangladesh.
— Ankit (@Ankit04421649) November 3, 2022
Ponting is spot on. Rohit averages 48 in ICC KOs. From current batch only Kohli has higher avg
— aarnav13 (@aarnav_13) November 3, 2022
Rohit Sharma is amazing white ball batsman .. respect ❤️
— KCT (@KCT60395924) November 3, 2022
Ponting knows ball
— STRΔΠGΣ ۞ (@emeraIdsphere) November 3, 2022
Meanwhile his scores in big games in last decade
2013 CT final : 9(14)
2014 T20WC final: 29(26)
2015 WC Semi final: 34(48)
2017 CT final: 0(2)
2019 WC semi final : 1(4)Hasn't played a single impactful innings in a big match. BiG MaTch PlaYer. Lol https://t.co/NAMdLrWvQM
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Goat praising another Goat 🔥
Advertisement— 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐦. 🦁 (@RofiedAsim) November 3, 2022
