Ashwin recalls Virat’s ‘nightmare’ remark on Indian captain Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma is undoubtedly one of the finest batters in white ball cricket and his record is evidence of that as he is the only batter to score three double hundreds in ODI cricket and one of the few Indian batters to have more than one century in T20 international cricket. Experts reckon that he has all the shots that a batter can play in white ball cricket and how can one forget his love affair will pull shot. He is one of the few batters that can play the shot with such perfection.

Indian off-spinner R Ashwin on his YouTube channel recalled an incident when the former Indian captain Virat Kohli said that Rohit the batter is a nightmare to bowl to, especially in death overs.

The Hitman

“5-6 years back, Virat Kohli and I had a discussion while Rohit was batting. I don’t remember which match it was. Seeing Rohit bat, I was thinking, ‘Where do you even bowl to him? If Rohit is set after 15-20 overs, you wouldn’t know where to bowl to him.’ Virat asked me, ‘Do you know who is a captain’s nightmare at the death?’ “I asked, ‘Is it Dhoni?’ Kohli was like, ‘No, it is Rohit.’ When I asked him why, he said ‘You won’t know where to bowl’,” recalled Ashwin.

Ashwin further stated that Rohit makes batting look effortless and has got all the shots in the book. “If Rohit Sharma is batting at the end of the 16th over in a T20, where will you bowl? He has got all the shots in the book and once he played an extraordinary knock in Chinnaswamy stadium that Kohli can never forget, it seems. “Rohit Sharma has got all the shots, and he makes it look so effortless and easy.”

The Form

The Indian captain has been in great form in the ongoing Asia Cup. The right-handed opening batter has scored three fifties in as many innings in which he has batted so far in the multination tournament and would love to score a few more in the remaining two matches including the final.