Courtesy: BCCI
On the eve of the second Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) Test of the five-match series, which will be played at the Adelaide Oval, Rohit Sharma, the captain of India, heaped praises of the youngsters, namely Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, and Rishabh Pant in the press conference. The 37-year-old spoke about how today’s generation of cricketers are “very fearless and don’t travel with a lot of baggage,” and they have only one thing on their mind about winning the match for the team.
Notably, after missing out on the first BGT Test match due to personal reasons, which India won under Jasprit Bumrah’s captaincy by a whopping 295 runs at the Optus Stadium in Perth, to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series, Rohit Sharma is back at the helm with the Indian cricket team. The right-handed batter has struggled for runs in the Test format in the past few months, scoring just 133 runs in the last 10 innings with one fifty to his name.
Today's generation of boys. They are very fearless and don't travel with a lot of baggage: Rohit Sharma
During the press conference ahead of the second BGT Test, Rohit Sharma spoke about how the youngsters have made a telling difference for India recently. He was quoted as saying, as per India Today, “Their minds have just one thing-how can we win the match for our team? They don't think about hundreds. When you think this way, individual performance also happens. If you want to win, you have to perform. This is an automatic process. If your first focus is on making the team win, then automatically it's reflected in their big scores. The primary focus is on winning matches. If not from bat, then they want to contribute with fielding or bowling. It is their natural mindset.”
Rohit Sharma singled-out the likes of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, and Rishabh Pant, talking about how these young players don’t put a lot of pressure on themselves unlike their predecessors. He remarked, “Today's generation of boys. They are very fearless and don't travel with a lot of baggage. Not suitcases, haha.. But in general, the pressure. Jaiswal, Gill and Pant, there are a different generation of cricketers. When we burst on to the scene, our minds used to hover around how we could score runs, we used to put a lot of pressure on ourselves. Every gen is different. Today's boys are very different and it favours them also. Whenever I talk and listen to them.”
