Rohit Sharma hoping to take T20 form into ODIs ? Cricket News Update
India?s middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma, who has had a struggling time in the ODIs this year, is hoping to take his impressive T20 form into the 50-overs format.
The 25-year-old Maharashtra batsman, who is regarded as a highly talented youngster with amazing wrists and sublime timing, has been going through a lean patch for some time now. In 13 One day Internationals played in 2012, the right-hander could manage only 164 runs, with only one half century, a 68-run knock against Pakistan, in Asia Cup, in March.
The Maharashtra batsman had a nightmarish tour of Sri Lanka in July, where he scored just 13 runs in five innings in the five-match ODI series against the hosts. However, he impressed his fans and silenced his critics with his heroics in the recently concluded ICC World T20 Championship, on the same Sri Lankan pitches where he had struggled a month ago. He scored two half centuries during the marquee tournament, 56 against Pakistan in a warm-up game and a 55 not out against England in a Group A fixture.
"I enjoy my stints in Twenty20. I sincerely hope I can adapt this to one-day cricket too, and do what I manage to do in T20," Rohit said in an exclusive interview with the?Times of India. "I have succeeded in this format regardless of conditions, batting order and any other factors. I hope it rubs off on other formats too," he added further.
Since making his international debut back in 2007, Sharma has to date played 85 ODIs and 32 T20 Internationals but he is yet to confirm a spot in the national set-up. The under-fire batsman also blamed his continuously changing batting position for his poor form.
?I've opened the batting, batted at numbers 3, 4, 7... I have batted wherever I have been asked to,? said the Indian batsman, who is yet to debut in the Test format. ?If I was an opener, it would've given me time to go out there and figure things out,? he added further.
Rohit?s lack of form earned him criticism from all directions, with his critics questioning his temperament and casual approach to the game. The Maharashtra batsman said that the criticism does hurt, but he tries to stay away from it and focus on his game.
Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/Rohit-Sharma-hoping-to-take-T20-form-into-ODIs-Cricket-News-Update-a194032
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