IND vs SL: Keep Your Head Down And Keep Doing Your Job - Rohit Sharma To Indian Test Team Contenders

The newly-appointed Indian Test captain Rohit Sharma advised the youngsters and upcoming players to keep their heads down and continue piling on the runs and the rest of things will fall in place.

Currently, two spots have opened up in the Indian Test team after Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara were axed from India’s Test squad for the Sri Lanka series. There are plenty of players who can fill in the No.3 and No.5 spot. Rohit suggested these candidates to continue scoring and the opportunities will follow.

“All I can tell them is keep scoring runs and the opportunity will arise as it has for (Hanuma) Vihari and Shreyas Iyer, Shubhman Gill, and all those guys, who are part of the test team now.”

“A lot of these guys, I know, you got to keep scoring runs, you got to to keep your head down and keep doing your job, that is what I can tell them at the moment and that is all we can expect them also to do,” Rohit said ahead of the first T20I against Sri Lanka.

“And if there will be a time the opportunity will arise, pretty sure that they will also be focussing on, getting more and more runs rather than worrying about if I am getting selected for not and things like that,” he added.

India will play against Sri Lanka in a 2-match Test series. The first will be played in Mohali while the second will be a day-night pink-ball Test in Bengaluru. Depending on how the surfaces are prepared and the composition of the Lankan XI, the team will be picked.

“A lot of things depend on what sort of combination we have at the moment in our particular squad and what pitches we are playing on the opposition, and things like that. So a lot of selection depends on that as well moving forward.”

“But like I clearly said there are only three Test matches. For the two Test matches we have announced the team and there is one Test which will be played in England. We will see about England later,” Rohit mentioned.

India’s Test squad for the Sri Lanka series:

Rohit Sharma (c), Mayank Agarwal, Priyank Panchal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, R Pant, KS Bharat, R Ashwin (subject to fitness), R Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, J Bumrah (vc), Md. Shami, Md. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Saurabh Kumar.

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