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"He needs to understand what is required from himself": Rohit Sharma on Pant's dismissals

Monday, 30-Dec-2024
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A stunning bowling performance from Australian bowlers rocketed the team to a 184-run victory over India in an epic Boxing Day Test on Monday in Melbourne. Australian bowlers Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Scott Boland led India's dramatic collapse in the final session of the fourth Test on day five. Yashasvi Jaiswal was the lone warrior for India, playing a massively successful knock of 84 to lead India's fightback.

However, Pat Cummins removed Jaiswal in a dramatic dismissal to further complicate the situation for India. With the win, Australia have gone 2-1 up in the five-match series. Apart from India's defeat, explosive batter Rishabh Pant's dismissal has also garnered significant attention.

In both innings of the fourth Test, Pant lost his wicket in the same manner, trying to play ramp shots. Speaking on Pant's dismissals, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma maintained that Pant needs to figure out what is the right way about it. 

"Rishabh Pant obviously he needs to understand what is required from himself. More than anyone of us telling him, it's about him understanding and figuring out what's the right way to go about it. In the past, he has given us lot of success doing what he does. So, as a captain, there's a kind of mixed reaction to that," Rohit said during the press conference after the fourth Test. 

"Sometimes you want to back that thought of him playing the way he plays, sometimes when things don't look good, it frustrates everyone. That is what it is, that's the reality. It's the success and failure, there need to be balanced about it. As captain it's hard to have conversation when it has given him a lot of success as well. But it's about him figuring out what is the right way to do things, it's about situations as well. Certain situations of the game, if there's a risk percentage, do you want to take that risk? Do you want to let the opposition come back into the game? Those are the things he need to figure out himself."

"I've known Rishabh for a long time. I understand his cricket as well. In the past, we have had lots of conversations. In terms of conversations, there is no way I can say I've not had a chat with him or he doesn't understand what the team expects. But things that he does gives him results as well, just the fine line between telling him not to do those things or telling him to do those things," Sharma said.

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