A month after his poor form forced Rohit Sharma to drop himself from a test match in Sydney, the India captain can finally breathe easy after producing a faith-restoring hundred in Sunday\u2019s second one-day international (ODI) against England.<\/p>\n
Rohit quit T20 Internationals minutes after leading India to their second 20-overs World Cup title last year and has struggled in tests.<\/p>\n
The Mumbai player turns 38 in April and media reports claim the selectors have asked him about his future plans beyond the Champions Trophy beginning later this month.<\/p>\n
Rohit scored two in the opening ODI against England, but Sunday\u2019s 119 off 90 balls was a timely reminder that the elegant opener is not a spent force yet.<\/p>\n
One of the cleanest strikers of the ball, Rohit clobbered seven effortless sixes and the familiar sweet sound of the bat whacking the ball announced the 50-overs stalwart was back in his element.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really broke it down into pieces about how I wanted to bat,\u201d player-of-the-match Rohit said of his approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a 50-over format \u2026 but you still need to break it down and assess what you need to do at regular intervals and that is what I kept doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was important for a batter who gets set to bat as deep as possible and that was my focus.\u201d<\/p>\n
It has been Rohit\u2019s template in ODIs \u2014 assessing before exploding, an approach that has fetched him three 200-plus scores, the most by a batsman, including a 264 that remains the highest individual score in this format.<\/p>\n
In Cuttack on Sunday, it was a typical Rohit knock where he shunned the cross-batted shots early in his knock before hitting the English bowlers all over the park at Barabati Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you play on black soil, (the ball) tends to skid on a bit, so it\u2019s important that you show the full face of the bat when you\u2019re batting initially,\u201d the right-hander said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I got into my innings, I understood what they were trying to do – bowling into our body and trying to not give any room, keeping it on the stumps.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where I prepared my plan as well, what I wanted to do with those kind of deliveries, trying to access the gaps which were there. It\u2019s about understanding what you want to do as a batter.\u201d<\/p>\n
India begin their Champions Trophy campaign against Bangladesh in Dubai on February 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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