In the last one decade or so, India’s record at home is nearly impeccable. The performances have only bettered under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. During the mammoth 2016-17 season, India defeated New Zealand, England, Australia and Bangladesh in Tests to bolster their number one rank.
In addition, they also won the limited-overs’ legs of those series. However, despite those successes, many feel that the overseas results would determine the team’s potential.
But India opener Rohit Sharma holds a different view. The 30-year old believes results and not the venues hold importance.
“It’s just a general perception of people that we have to win away games. As long as you are playing the game, you have to win everywhere,” Sharma said at an event to launch the new AlphaBounce Beyond shoe by Adidas.
“It doesn’t matter where you win. People obviously find it more interesting to write something different when it comes to overseas victories. Yes overseas victories are important but you have to win at home first then you win overseas,” he stated.
“It is important for us to win every game, in every country. Any country we go to play we have to try and win,” he further said.
India will have their task to cut out this year as they are set for challenging tours of England and Australia.
In addition, they did reasonably well in South Africa, winning the last Test and the limited-overs series after conceding the Test series and will be keen to go one better on the upcoming tours.
Rohit would also like to perform well on the tours after a forgettable outing in South Africa.
“There are challenging tours that are coming up which we have to do well in,” said Sharma.
“If you look at the South Africa tour, we almost won the first Test match and won the third. We are competing really hard as a team even outside India,” he added.
Rohit Sharma maintained there are certain areas to work on while adding the South Africa tour has been a learning curve.
“Things will fall in place. There are certain things we need to improve as a group. I am sure we can take the learning from what happened in South Africa with us when we go to England,” he added.
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