‘Credit to Virat and KL on the chase’ – Rohit Sharma on India defeating Australia in ODI World Cup 2023

The Indian cricket team recently defeated the most successful team in the ODI World Cup in the sixth match of the ODI World Cup 2023 which was conducted at Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on 8 October. The games or a thrilling dominating power of the bowlers as initially in the first innings India bowled out Australia within 49.3 overs. 

In the second innings of the match, Australia dismissed three top-order Indian batsmen within the first 2 overs.  

Rohit Sharma on dealing with changing combinations in the team 

After defeating Australia, India’s captain Rohit Sharma talked about the victory and how the team will have to make changes in the upcoming games considering the situation and conditions on different pitches, in the post-match presentation ceremony. He said, “Pretty exciting. Good feeling to come out on top. It was a good game to start the tournament for us. I thought it was magnificent, especially the fielding and we saw the effort from everyone today, conditions like this it would be tough. Our bowlers used the conditions perfectly and we knew there would be assistance for everyone, even the seamers got some reverse, the spinners bowled in the nice areas and all in all, it was a great effort.”

“I was (nervous), you don’t want to start your innings like that, credit to the Aussies bowlers as they bowled in good areas but some loose shots as well, when you have that kind of target you want to score as much as possible in the powerplay, but credit to Virat and KL on how they went about the chase”, he added. 

“That is going to be the challenge for us as a team, moving to different conditions and adapting, whoever suits the conditions will have to come and do the job. Chennai never disappoints, they love their cricket and for them to sit in that heat and come out and cheer for the team says a lot”, concluded Rohit Sharma.