IND vs SL: Rohit Sharma Reveals His Biggest Challenge After First Win As Test Skipper

Rohit Sharma made a winning start to his stint as India’s Test captain. He led India to a win by an innings and 222 runs in the Mohali Test and thereby earned a 1-0 lead in the series. He was pinpoint with his moves as a captain said Sunil Gavaskar as he praised Rohit’s style of captaincy in the red-ball game.

The Indian team is in a winning momentum under Rohit. He won three consecutive T20I series and now has won his first Test as captain by a huge margin. While speaking to the media in the post-match press conference on Day 3, the opener talked about his biggest challenge apart from winning games.

Have To Take It Upon Me To Create Benchstrength: Rohit Sharma

“If you create that bench strength and you start thinking from now, Indian cricket will be in good hands. This is one of my challenges and one of my responsibilities. I have to take it upon me to create that bench strength, keeping in mind a lot of things,” Rohit said at the end of the Test match.

He is leading a young group of players on the side and he said that they needed to be given a longer run in the absence of the veterans. While this Test match was all about Ravindra Jadeja‘s all-round performance, there were contributions from Rishabh Pant. Hanuma Vihari, Shreyas Iyer and Ravichandran Ashwin as well.

India scored 574 in the first innings and bowled the Lanks out for 174 and 178 in the two innings of the Test match. He also opened up on his biggest challenge as India’s Test captain which he said was to ensure that players get enough opportunities to play red-ball cricket under his captaincy.

“It’s going to be my biggest challenge more than winning games and all of that. For me what is important is how I approach those guys who are sitting outside and how I can get them in a good mindset. When they get an opportunity they should be very clear as to what they want to go out there and achieve. That will impact all our performances whether we win or lose games,” said Rohit.

The second Test match between the two sides is a day-night Test match that starts from March 12 onwards in Bengaluru.

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