Batsmen Will Take At Least One And A Half Month To Find Sweet Spot Of Their Bats, Feels Rohit Sharma

The onslaught of the global pandemic that is the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is set to have far-reaching consequences on cricket when the game resumes in the post corona world.

With the International Cricket Council [ICC] mulling over banning the usage of sweat and saliva on a cricket ball, the debate has been rife around the detrimental effect it will have on the fast bowlers.

But according to swashbuckling Indian opener Rohit Sharma, things wouldn’t be easy for batsmen either. In a recent chat with Mohammed Shami on Instagram Live, Rohit said that it will at least take one and a half months for any batsmen to get their hand-eye coordination up to the mark, especially while facing bowlers bowling in excess of 140 km/hr.

“Batsmen will take at least one and a half months to find the sweet spot of their bats. The hand-eye coordination is also very important. It takes time to align perfectly because you are facing bowlers who are bowling at 140 kph at the top level,” he said in an Instagram live chat with Shami.

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Intense Training session a necessity before cricket resumes: Rohit Sharma

Rohit also said that an intense training session for at least a month is a necessity in order to get the rhythm back before facing bowlers at the highest level.

“Before any sort of cricket at the highest level, we need to have intense practice for at least one month to get our rhythm back. It has been a long time – more than three months – that we have touched our bats. It may take some more time since it doesn’t seem the lockdown will be over any time soon,” Rohit asserted.

Rohit Sharma isn’t the first cricketer to raise the same concern. Earlier, England’s swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batsman has echoed the same that batsmen would take at least one and a half months to get themselves back into the groove.

Coming back to the issue of ICC contemplating the ban of saliva on the cricket ball, world cricket has been divided into two corners. While the likes of Alan Donald and Venkatesh Prasad have supported the move, Michael Holding, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, and Waqar Younis have voiced strong displeasure at the same.

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