India vs West Indies: New Approach in T20s will witness occasional failures,says Rohit Sharma.
Rohit Sharma said that the new approach provides more freedom to players, which has yields success after the disappointing World Cup campaign, where indha were eliminated in the league stage.
Captain Rohit Sharma believes the new fearless approach adopted by India in the shortest format will result in occasional but disagrees that they were playing ” conservative” cricket during last year’s T20 World Cup in UAE.
“We didn’t get the result from the last World Cup but that doesn’t mean we played bad cricket all these years and u don’t agree we were playing conservative cricket,” …..
“If you lose one or two matches in the world cup, it feels like we were doing this and that, we were not taking your chances. It’s not like that. If you look at the overall games that we have played leading into the World Cup, we won 80 percent of our games .”
“If we were conservative, hie can we win so many matches? That’s fine that we lost in the World Cup, didn’t qualify but that happens. That doesn’t mean we are playing with fear, not playing openly.”
“Lately we haven’t made any chances , we are doing the same thing but the players have been given some freedom to go out and play their own game. Play openly, no need to take any undue pressure, if you play freely, performance will show.”
Rohit said after….
“There are bound to be occasional failures in the way we are playing cricket now, results will not be out favourite but there is no problem in it because we are trying to learn something and trying something different.”
“So, there are scope for mistakes but that doesn’t mean the boys are bad. It’s just what we are trying to do something new. Everyone has to change with time, we are changing so I think people sitting outside also need to change their thinking.”