Team India The new white-ball captain Rohit Sharma has opened up about his new role in the team as he claims it is more from inside than outside by making players comfortable. Rohit’s place Virat Kohli As the new ODI captain of the Indian team, the selectors did not want two separate captains for the white-ball formats. The upcoming three-match series against South Africa will be Rohit’s first appointment as permanent ODI captain.
Post appointment, Rohit feels that a captain is only as good as his team and his role is to ensure that the right combination of players is playing.
Rohit said during the YouTube show ‘Backstage with Boriya’, “It’s a captain to make sure the right players are playing, playing the right combination and obviously there are some tactical things that you need to focus on.” Is.”
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For that, a captain needs to walk the talk with his performance, but otherwise stand behind and put a hand around teammates.
“The captain needs to stand at the fore while performing and needs to stand at the back for everything else.
“The reason I say he can make a difference by standing back is because then he can make sure he puts his hand around everybody, that’s what I meant when I said you have to be the least important member of the team.” have to become.”
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For Rohit, a captain has only 20 per cent of the work on the field and 80 per cent of the work.
He said, ‘My role is more outside than inside. Give roles to the players who are expected to go there. It happens off the field. Once you’re on the field, you only have three hours and you can change them very little and there are 11 people playing and you have to watch everything.”
The new captain said, ‘You can’t change much on the field.
He has five trophies with Mumbai Indians but believes he had little role in the success as the team management had created a formidable unit.
Rohit said that he cannot tell what exactly went wrong in the last three ICC events, 2017 Champions Trophy final, 2019 World Cup semi-finals and this year’s T20 World Cup.
“It was the initial phase where we lost. I want to see we prepare for worst like 3 position for 10. That’s how I want to go ahead and guys batting at number 3, 4, 5 and 6 should be ready. Nowhere is it written that with 10/3 you can’t score 190.”
“Suppose we are 10/2 in the first two overs. What do we do? What’s the plan? I want to put myself in that position. We have a few matches (before the T20 World Cup) to try it out.”
For Rohit, it has happened thrice – twice against Pakistan and once against New Zealand.
“The quality of bowling (in these matches) has been exceptional. This has happened three times. Hopefully it won’t be the fourth time.”
(with PTI inputs)
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