Mirpur: Claiming that the team has identified the reason for the loss in the first ODI against Bangladesh, Indian opener Rohit Sharma said that the bowlers should take wickets up-front to put pressure on the opposition in the must-win game, here on Sunday. Rohit, who top-scored with a well-made 63 in the 79-run loss on Thursday, feels the bowlers should strike early.
“The wicket looks quite similar to the first game. Generally the wicket here tends to play similar throughout. Tactically, we need to understand where we lacked in the first game. It’s always important to take wickets up front that is something, which we will be focussing on. To get early wickets. It always builds pressure when you take early wickets that were missing in the first game,” Rohit on Saturday said at the pre-match press conference.
“Their batsmen kept going after our bowlers. We need to get wickets early in the game, which puts a brake on momentum and slows the run-rate. We have quality bowlers and hopefully they can do better on Sunday,” he added. “From our point of view, it’s very important that we stick to our gameplan. We knew what went wrong in the first match. We will think about it and when we comeback and play the second ODI.
It will be a different Indian side obviously we were trying our best in the first game as well but things didn’t work out. “We have got certain plans coming their way hopefully we will try and execute those plans and things will work in our favour then,” said the Mumbai batsman. Going into the game with a must-win scenario does take a lot out of a unit, but Rohit denies the presence of pressure in the Indian dressing room.
