While a whole lot of the well wishers have expressed concern over the not so bright performance of Rohit Sharma in the ongoing World Cup, the Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is apparently not too much worried about Rohit Sharma’s below par performance and emphasized that the important thing is to see the manner of his batting rather than the number of runs he has scored.
It is interesting to note that Rohit Sharma has so far scored only 159 runs in six league matches at a mediocre average of 31.8 with two half-centuries to his credit. Although he happens to be the only one to have scored two double centuries in ODIs, but he has not been able to convert few good starts into 50-plus scores in only two matches – against UAE (57 not out) and Ireland (64).
Dhoni however preferred to adopt a positive approach on Rohit’s dip in form and instead he justified, Well, we have to consider the fact there have been instances where we have chased quite a few times so far in the tournament, and if the opposition (UAE, West Indies) have not scored too many runs, the openers, they can’t score the same number of runs.
Dhoni, elaborating his point further, said, What is important is to see what kind of a start they have got. I feel Rohit has batted really well so far. He looks quite calm and composed, and at the same time he’s playing the shots really well. That’s something of a key factor. It’s not always about the runs. We have seen batsmen who are playing really well but they have not scored runs (in matches), and all of a sudden you see a game where they score really big and they come back. So it’s not really being out of form. What’s important is to spend time in the middle, and I think Rohit has done enough of that.