Rohit Sharma
Indian Team: The Indian team has suffered a 32-run defeat in the second ODI against Sri Lanka. With this, the Indian team has fallen behind 0-1 in the three-match ODI series. While chasing the target of 241 runs, the Indian team was reduced to 208 runs due to the six wickets of leg spinner Jeffrey Vandersay, which once again exposed their weakness against spin. The Indian team’s batsmen could not perform well in the match. Indian captain Rohit Sharma called the 32-run defeat unfortunate and said that there will be a discussion on the way the batsmen play in the middle overs.
Rohit Sharma gave this statement
Rohit Sharma said after the match that it hurts when you lose a match. It is not just about those 10 overs in which India lost six wickets for 50 runs. You have to play cricket consistently and we failed to do so. I am a little disappointed, but such things keep happening. We did not play well. I do not want to focus too much on the way we played. But there will be discussion about our batting in the middle overs.
Credit given to Sri Lankan player
Rohit said that the Indian batsmen will have to adapt themselves according to the pitches here. He said that you have to adapt yourself according to the pitches. With the combination of left and right hand batsmen, we felt that it would be easy to rotate the strike. But credit goes to Jeffrey Vandersay, he took six wickets.
Rohit Sharma had scored a half century
The opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave the Indian team a great start. But as soon as both of them were out, the Indian batting fell apart. Rohit scored 64 runs and Gill scored 35 runs. Apart from this, only Akshar Patel was able to score 44 runs. The rest of the batsmen proved to be a complete flop. In the match, Jeffrey Vandersay took 6 wickets for 33 runs in 10 overs for Sri Lanka. He received the Player of the Match award.
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