IND vs WI: Rohit Sharma Says It's Not His Job To Speak To Players Like Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli’s recent Test century has become the talk of the town. The century helped the former India skipper finally end his long overseas century drought.

Virat Kohli faced criticism in recent times for his failure to score big outside India. Many even said that the India superstar is well behind the likes of Steve Smith, Joe Root and Kane Williamson when it comes to Tests. The right-handed batsman, however, reminded everyone of his class once again by scoring a sublime century in the second Test of the recently-concluded series against West Indies.

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It was Virat Kohli’s 500th international match as he became just the fourth Indian after Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni to achieve the feat. He also became the first player to score a century in his 500th international match.

Virat Kohli scored 121 runs before being run out. Thanks to his century, India recovered from a top-order collapse to score 438 runs. Unfortunately, India could not win the game as rain played spoilsport on the last three days of the game.

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Rohit Sharma on Virat Kohli:

With Virat Kohli facing criticism for his failure to score overseas tons in recent times before ending the drought, India skipper Rohit Sharma has leapt in his defence. Speaking ahead of the first ODI against West Indies, Rohit Sharma made it clear that he is unconcerned with what is being said publicly about Kohli’s or any other player’s performance.

“Look I have answered this question a number of times. We don’t focus too much on what is being said on the outside as they don’t know what conversations we have within the team and we would like to keep it that way.

“Our focus remains on how to get the best out of every individual in the team and how to help the team win games and series. Now our focus is on the three one-dayers and giving players chances so I would want to keep myself involved with that,” Rohit Sharma said in the pre-match presentation.

“There are quite a few players in the team who have played so much cricket that they need not be told everything. They are more than capable of understanding their game and you need not go and tell them every single detail. Our job is to make the new players comfortable and help them get the best out of themselves. Our focus is only on those things that could be for the betterment of the team,” the India captain further added.

The three-match ODI series between India and West Indies is scheduled to begin on Thursday (July 27) in Barbados.

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