Former New Zealand pace bowler Simon Doull has praised Rohit Sharma’s approach to his captaincy and batting in the recent past. He has said that the Indian skipper has been ‘the most selfless Indian cricketer’ he has seen in recent years. Simon Doull said Rohit Sharma has all the tools and the temperament to be successful in South Africa, as a batter and as a captain.
India has never won a Test series in South Africa and Rohit Sharma has the chance to create history. This will be Rohit’s first series in SENA countries as a captain. He would like to register the first-ever Test series win for India in South Africa. India and South Africa will face each other at the Supersport Park in Centurion for the first Test of the series.
Simon Doull Expects To See The World Cup Version Of Rohit Sharma In Test Cricket
Simon Doull expects to see the aggressive and selfless Rohit Sharma take on the Proteas that caught everyone’s eyes during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. He said, “It will be about tempering his game a little bit. The one thing I have observed about Rohit Sharma in the last 10-18 months is that he has probably been the most selfless Indian cricketer I have seen in a long, long time.
He has done everything he possibly could for his team to win. He made this team, he played in a certain way to allow the others in the team to be able to play the way they play, in white-ball cricket in particular,” Doull said after India won the ODI series 2-1 in Paarl on Thursday.
“In the World Cup, we saw that he set the tone at the top of the order, which allowed the middle order to play the way they played. So, it’s a slight change for him, not too much. I still want him to be that aggressive Rohit Sharma. We do see it in Test matches,” he added.
Doull believes that Rohit is only getting better as a Test captain and that he is learning to be more aggressive as a skipper in red-ball cricket. “The captaincy thing. He is getting really better. He has become a very, very good captain. He was always a very good white-ball captain, but I think he has become a slightly more aggressive red-ball captain. I am looking forward to seeing more of that through this series,” Doull added.
