Zoom News : Feb 01, 2024, 01:31 PM
IND vs ENG: The second match against England is going to be very important for Indian team captain Rohit Sharma. His bat has not been scoring runs in Tests for some time now. But Rohit is now going to enter his luckiest field. Where last time he played, he played a solid innings and his luck changed. The special thing is that Rohit Sharma will come here to play for the second time. The way the Indian team had to face defeat in the first match, a big innings is being expected from Rohit.Rohit has played one match so far in VisakhapatnamRohit Sharma had earlier come to play on this ground of Visakhapatnam on 2nd October in the year 2018. Virat Kohli was the captain at that time. Virat Kohli used to be the captain in this match played against South Africa and Kohli, playing a gamble, handed over the responsibility of opening to Rohit Sharma like in ODI. It seemed as if Rohit was waiting for this. Rohit Sharma, who appeared in Test for the first time as an opening batsman along with Mayank Agarwal, played an excellent inning of 176 runs in the very first innings. For this he faced 244 balls. Rohit Sharma hit 23 fours and 6 sixes. India scored a mountain-like score of 502 runs and declared the innings at seven wickets.Rohit also scored a century in the second innings of the matchRohit's bat had still not stopped. When he came to bat again in the second innings, he again attacked the bowlers of the opposing team. This time Rohit Sharma scored 127 runs. That means Rohit scored centuries in both the innings of the match. This time, Rohit faced 149 balls to score 127 runs, during which he hit 10 fours and 7 sixes. This time India declared the innings after scoring 323 runs for four wickets. Thanks to these two innings of Rohit Sharma, India won this match by a huge margin of 203 runs. However, apart from Rohit, there was another batsman who should not be forgotten, that is Mayank Agarwal. Mayank Agarwal, opening the innings with Rohit in the first innings, played an excellent inning of 215 runs. Rohit Sharma has 303 runs in his name in a match on this ground.
The second match will not be easy for Team IndiaThe Indian team and Rohit himself will also hope that the kind of innings he played in the year 2019 should come again. So that pressure can be created on the England team. Anyway, the Indian team has played two matches on this ground so far and the Indian team has been successful in winning every match. While this boosts Team India's morale, the kind of performance England has shown, it is not going to be an easy task for India to register a win. It remains to be seen how both the teams play on the field.
The second match will not be easy for Team IndiaThe Indian team and Rohit himself will also hope that the kind of innings he played in the year 2019 should come again. So that pressure can be created on the England team. Anyway, the Indian team has played two matches on this ground so far and the Indian team has been successful in winning every match. While this boosts Team India's morale, the kind of performance England has shown, it is not going to be an easy task for India to register a win. It remains to be seen how both the teams play on the field.