Indian skipper Mahendra Singh said on Thursday that comparing opener Rohit Sharma now to what he was four years back is quite unrealistic as he thought it was a waste of talent back then. Rohit, who hit a match-winning 137 off 126 balls, was at his sublime best in the World Cup quarter-final against Bangladesh at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
He clobbered the bowlers all around the park ensuring that India had a formidable total of 302 on the scoreboard. They later bowled out Bangladesh for 193 winning the contest by 109 runs. “It is an unrealistic comparison if you compare Rohit now to what he was four years back.
It was a bit of a waste of talent,” Dhoni said at the post-match media conference. “He wasn’t getting much opportunity to bat as our top order was fixed. They fired and he never got a chance to open the innings, he just could not come in and play down the order,” he added.
“After some of his performances in the last few years, we decided to make him the opener and he obliged. He is a natural strokemaker and once he gets going he scores a lot of runs.”
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