You Know That Hes Going To…: Mumbai Indians Coach Mahela Jayawardene Provides His Verdict On Rohit Sharmas Batting Strategy

Rohit Sharma’s aggressive method with the bat might need drawn criticism for extra misses than hits however Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene mentioned the crew has backed the previous captain to bat at an identical tempo regardless of its perils.

Rohit stroked his solution to a match-winning 45-ball 76 right here on Sunday towards Chennai Tremendous Kings to banish an unusual run of scores thus far on this IPL season.

“As soon as he comes off like that, you recognize that he’ll change the sport and the momentum and that is going to filter right down to the remainder of the boys as nicely, so fairly pleased with the method,” Jayawardene advised the media within the post-match press convention.

“He by no means modified his method. The intent was there from day one, although he was failing, in order that was good for us (in the best way) that he was making an attempt to play for the crew and the way he wished to do it. We simply backed him to do this,” he added.

Jayawardene mentioned displaying situational consciousness is crucial and Rohit was capable of execute his plans nicely towards CSK.

“He is been enjoying at this tempo for some time and that is one thing that he understands himself. However on the identical time, he’ll perceive the sport higher in situational consciousness as nicely,” he mentioned.

“Like in the present day, when Ash (Ravichandran Ashwin) got here (on to bowl) as nicely, he (Rohit) took just a little little bit of time. He knew that he did not should take (on) the lengthy boundary right away,” Jayawardene mentioned.

“However these are skilled gamers making these good selections on the market. He’ll nonetheless play with that tempo and we have inspired him to do this as a result of he is a rattling good participant, we would like him to take management of that.

“He has bought a few different guys who’re going to observe him, who will bat round him as nicely (to) take that little little bit of onus away from sure conditions,” he added.

Jayawardene mentioned MI constructed match-up conditions within the sport for Rohit in coaching to assist him be in the suitable state of mind.

“Rohit does bat within the nets, however there’s a completely different preparation to how he goes about it. For him, there have been a few good balls he bought after which a few occasions that he tried issues that did not work, so that you attempt to struggle via these conditions,” he mentioned.

“For a man with that type of expertise, you actually depart them be and have these optimistic conversations and say that, ‘let’s do the matchups after which see how he will get going’ and hold these optimistic intent.

That was the only a few conversations Polly (Kieron Pollard) had with him, I had with him and he was fairly okay about the whole lot. He is aware of what he must do,” he added.

Jayawardene mentioned there wasn’t a lot concern round Rohit’s string of unusual scores.

“It was only a timing factor that he will get going after which will get via that first three, 4 overs,” he mentioned.

“Even after begins, he had a few pictures which (he) most likely simply mistimed just a little bit. However that is how the sport goes, you’ll want to be understanding that. We have performed sufficient cricket to know that as nicely,” he added.