Indian captain Rohit Sharma is the best opening batter in the world, without a shadow of any doubt. He kick-started his cricketing career as a middle-order batsman because of stiff competition in the Indian team.
Rohit Sharma was a youngster at that time as the Indian selection committee relied on senior opening pair Virender Sehwag-Sachin Tendulkar or Virender Sehwag-Gautam Gambhir to open the innings for the national cricket team.
Rohit Sharma was often overshadowed by the selectors during the initial years of his career. He was in and out of the cricketing set-up and even though he was part of the line-up, he hardly got chances to bat.
In fact, he unleashed his true colours once the Indian team management decided to play him as an opener and the rest is history. Little did the onlookers know that he would go on to become the best opener across three formats.
The Indian team management realized that Rohit Sharma is a brilliant stroker-maker and is someone who can play pull shots and other shots quite well. The board took the gamble and the move paid off, there was no turning back since then for Rohit.
Rohit Sharma stuns Bangladesh by scoring a quickfire fifty coming in to bat at No.9
For the unversed, the stalwart’s first game as an opener came in the year 2009 during a T20 World Cup game against the Bangladesh cricket team. Nonetheless, he secured the permanent spot of an opener in limited overs back in 2013.
During the second ODI against Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma came out to bat at No.9 with an injured thumb. He went on to dominate the game by scoring a quick-fire fifty off 28 balls including 3 fours and 5 sixes to his name.
Netizens came up with countless tweets in favour of Sharma, appreciating the batsman for showing a great deal of interest to play for the country. There were talks on Twitter that Rohit Sharma should play the finisher’s role in international cricket.
I think Rohit should play as a finisher, rather than at the top. https://t.co/kv1BROOtdu
— c (@cz516) December 7, 2022
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What? No please don't tweet. 50 + avg for 8 years as an opener .
Advertisement— robert joshua (@joshuarobert017) December 7, 2022
So your saying rohit should bat at 9 . Awesome . All the best buddy
— robert joshua (@joshuarobert017) December 7, 2022
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His knock was decent even before those two drops
Advertisement— Blah (@Blah10870401) December 7, 2022
If you know his early days then you would raise this question. He was a Middle Order, No-5,6 Player in his initial days for Tightly Packed National Team. A Decent Player in mid.
The Opener Rohit Sharma created the storm in World Cricket
Advertisement— SR Cricket Fantasy (@CricketFantasyS) December 7, 2022
Not at all. Look at his ODI average opening between 2013-20. Above 55 each year. Just that he is struggling opening the innings now, like our other openers.
— 𝒟𝓇.🅁 🄺 🅅 (@coincidentaldoc) December 7, 2022
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Maybe this is the tonic needed where ball does not swing or seam and bowlers are slightly more tired..He does not get problems with short ball!!
Advertisement— Sashidharan Ramamurthy (@SashidharanRam1) December 7, 2022
I always thought he's a better finisher…has that explosive quality in him…In that ipl innings where MI chased 195 in 14 overs to KO RR…i made up my mind that he should play no 4 in t20I ..
— Aaaaaa-nnniiiiiiiii-sssshhhhh (@DrAWHyderabadi) December 8, 2022
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his stats and career definitely shows its not wasted all the time and he was a very good opener.may be after 2022, its not a bad idea for him to take up the role of a finisher just like dhoni.
Advertisement— Hari (@harry_vis) December 7, 2022
Serouisly bruh he has 3 double hundred while opening 😆
— bhavyam767 (@bhavyam321) December 7, 2022
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