NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma might have endured failure in both innings of the pink ball Test against Australia in Adelaide, but former Australia player Matthew Hayden finds no flaw with the Indian skipper’s technique as he perished to an unplayable delivery.
Hayden also highlighted Rohit’s exceptional batting style, noting that he has more time to play his shots compared to most batters and describing his approach as if he’s “sitting on a leather lounge chair.”
“One remark quickly on Rohit Sharma. He plays cricket like he’s sitting on a leather lounge chair and reclining with a cup of coffee in his hands. You’ve got to admire the different styles that arrive at Test cricket. Virat Kohli, very hard at the ball, a busy player, really wants to get amongst it. Rohit Sharma’s too easy. He’s more in the category of the Mark Waugh’s, the Shubman Gills. They make cricket look easy. It’s very easy for us that makes it as well to make the comments around, well, that was a soft way to get out. But it’s the one thing that we actually admire the most about someone like Rohit Sharma who seemingly does have a lot of time to play,” Hayden said on Star Sports.
“Folks, don’t be too disappointed. He got an absolute jaffer of a delivery. In fact, he got a great sequence of deliveries in the short time that he was out there under these lights. And I’ve watched pink ball Test matches as we all have closely for a number of years here. And when it comes to the night game with the new pink ball, it is horrendous. It’s so technically difficult. It exposes everyone and anyone,” he added.
Travis Head struck a magnificent 140 off 141 balls as Australia finished Day 2 in dominant style at the Adelaide Oval.
Head’s eighth Test century – including 17 fours and four sixes – helped Australia score 337 runs in its first innings and take a 157-run lead over India’s 180 runs.
In the second innings, India was down to 128-5 in 24 overs at stumps and staring at a potentially colossal defeat on Day 3.