WTC Final: "You'll Say It Was More Risk And Less Reward" - Aakash Chopra Said Of Rohit Sharma's Dismissal On Day 4 Of The WTC Final

WTC Final: “You’ll Say It Was More Risk And Less Reward” – Aakash Chopra Said Of Rohit Sharma’s Dismissal On Day 4 Of The WTC Final

Last Update on: June 11th, 2023 at 12:25 pm

Aakash Chopra, a former Indian opener, has noted that Rohit Sharma was dismissed while making a hazardous shot given the circumstances of the match.

In India’s second innings of the World Test Championship (WTC) final, Rohit made 43 runs before succumbing to Nathan Lyon. Day 4 (Saturday, June 10) ended with India at 164/3, needing 280 runs with seven wickets in hand.

Aakash Chopra emphasized that Rohit needed to play a significant knock but was ultimately dismissed while playing a hazardous shot in a video he posted on his YouTube channel evaluating the game: “After Gill was dismissed, Pujara came and he was actually batting well. Rohit Sharma was there alongside him and he was playing extremely fluently, but this run chase will not be done through fluency, it will be done with a big knock, which is very very important.”

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“Then Rohit Sharma got out in Nathan Lyon’s over. He was playing the sweep. If you see it in terms of risk-reward, you will say it was more risk and less reward. However, if you see it from a different angle, you will say that’s Rohit’s way of playing,” Aakash Chopra added.

Rohit was called out leg-before-wicket after missing the ball while attempting to sweep Lyon, who was operating from the around-the-wicket angle. Despite his reconsideration of the decision, replays revealed that the ball pitched within the stumps and crashed into the off-stump.

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“Pujara got out while playing the ramp shot off” – Aakash Chopra

Aakash Chopra pointed out that the dismissals of Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara in consecutive overs put India behind the eight ball: “You will get cut at times with the sword you use to cut. The truth is that he got out and Pujara got out right after him. While you were 92/1, you suddenly became 93/3. Pujara got out while playing the ramp shot off Pat Cummins’ bowling.”

“Neither Pujara plays the ramp shot that often nor Rohit plays the fine sweep so early – when it is the first or second over of the off-spinner. But both these things happened and India were three down and staring down the barrel because suddenly 444 looked like a huge total,” Aakash Chopra added.

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Rohit and Pujara (27) scored 51 runs for the second wicket to put India in command at 92/1. Their dismissals reduced the runners-up from the last cycle to 93/3 before Virat Kohli (44*) and Ajinkya Rahane (20*) put together an unbroken 71-run fourth-wicket partnership to offer them hope to move into the fifth day of the title decider.