Make the most when things are going your way- Rohit
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|| CF Correspondent ||
India's most successful opener Rohit Sharma said that he does not get too aggressive after a hundred and it allows him to score big hundreds in the end.
Rohit Sharma is the only player in world cricket history who has three double hundred in ODI and his highest score is a stunning 264 run against Sri Lanka. He has been called as one of the best compact openers in cricket.
In a Facebook live session with veteran opener of Bangladesh Tamim Iqbal, Rohit expressed what he thinks when he went to bat and also what he thinks after scoring a century.
In the session, Tamim asked Rohit how he is able to make so much run and have a fearless innings the moment he crossed the hundred run mark.
Reply to Tamim's question Rohit said that sometimes things don't go the way he wants and sometimes it does and then he took the blinder and decide to score big anyhow and that luck and confidence help him to rise above the odds.
"When things are not going your way you get a bad decision from the umpire, suddenly someone took a one-handed catch of yours, you get run-out. But when things are going your way you have to make the most of it, So, I think when you dropped my catch, I was thinking that now I have to score big," Rohit Sharma said.
The right-handed opener also said that when starting the innings he always had some nervousness working in him but the moment he scores a century he started to pick the bowler and try to hit as hard as he can. Because for him that is the moment when a player should start to enjoy the batting instead of being paranoid and only a miss shot or bad decision can stop a batsman at that moment.
"As I've said when you are starting the innings you're nervous. But when reach to your hundred run then you should start to enjoy completely. That nervousness and things goes away after then. After you get a hundred it's your time. It's your game, unless you're not making a mistake you're not going to get out. So, that is what I think. I know that when you are having bad times you used to get out. Get out from good bowl and bad bowls. You will get a bad decision, so, you know I remember all those things. Once I go passed hundred I think about all those things of how to make the most and after getting the hundred it's impossible to get out unless you make a mistake," he added.
Rohit said that tries to play his normal cricket till 40th over and after then he started to become aggressive and tries to hit on every bowl.
"So I used to say that to myself when I'm on the pitch. Unless 43-44 over I try to bat normal then I have to think that now I need to hit every bowl. Let's say till 40th over I look to play normal cricket. If I see the bowl I'll hit the bowl. But after 40 or 42 over then I will try to hit every bowl, depending on who's batting also with me. If I'm batting with a tailender then I'll probably not take the chance. If I'm batting with a middle-order batsman who is set and there is another batsman to come then I'll take that chance little early," Rohit Sharma concluded.
