Srinagar: Team India skipper Rohit Sharma has said that he focussed on to manage his premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah’s workload as he is the key in the ongoing series vs Australia.
Australia levelled Border-Gavaskar Trophy at 1-1 after a victory at the Adelaide Oval. Rohit’s return wasn’t a happy one, as he failed individually and also started facing questions regarding his captaincy.
Speaking in the press conference ,Rohit said, “Right now, I won’t be thinking about Sydney at all. We need to think about what we need to do in Brisbane”.
“And, look, it’s a great thing to have someone like Bumrah, but he is not going to be the only one who is going to do the job all the time. We saw Siraj, along with Bumrah, when he got those four wickets, the responsibility was shared. Bumrah will not get wickets at times, and the other guys need to step in,” said Rohit.
“I keep talking to him (Bumrah) during his spells, asking how his body is holding up. It’s a five-Test series, and we want Bumrah to be fresh and play all five matches. It’s important to analyse these things; workload management is crucial. You can’t expect Bumrah to bowl from both ends, from morning to evening. It’s important to manage the bowlers. We talk to them and then make decisions,” said Rohit.
Rohit was also cognisant of how the batting’s double failure also had to be rectified, not by just one or two players but across the board.
“That’s how we talk in the batting group as well, ‘x, y, z’ would not be scoring runs all the time. Everyone in the team understands that. It’s just not about one individual or two; if you want to win a Test or a series, everyone has to share the responsibility, put their hand up, and get the job done. That’s something I have always seen in this team,” Team India captai said.
India will have less than a week to find the answers after their wholesale struggles in Adelaide, as the series heads to the Gabba in Brisbane, the scene of the climax during India’s famous tour down under last time out.