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Kohli needs to bat well to retain the World Cup, says Rahul
Sydney: As the ICC World Cup 2015 is all set to begin from February 14, Legendary Indian cricketer and “The Wall” Rahul Dravid boosts Virat Kohli by saying that he will need to be at his best during the ICC World Cup as the Indian team was heavily dependent on its One-Day International (ODI) vice captain.
“If you look at the Indian batting lineup, they are in a sense heavily reliant on someone like Virat Kohli to get India through those middle overs which allows the likes of Raina and Dhoni to come at the back end and finish off games,” Dravid said.
He also said that Kohli needs to bat well and set the tempo if India are to have a chance of retaining the World Cup.
“He will need to bat well. He’ll need to set the tempo for the side.”
Delivering concern over the death bowling of the team terming it “inconsistent”, Rahul said, “Mohammad Shami we’ve seen has a good yorker and when he’s on song he does well. Ishant Sharma has blown hot and cold in one-day cricket. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is brilliant when the balls swings, but again his death bowling has been good on some days, not been great (on other days) same with Umesh Yadav. So there’s no consistency in that.”
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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