India captain Rohit Sharma is now assured that the future of team India is in safe hands as players like Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, and Yashasvi Jaiswal proved their capability on the pitch and made significant contributions in the field and with the bat to help the team win the third Test against England by 434 runs. While players like Sarfaraz and Jaiswal maintained significant partnerships in the middle, Jurel excelled behind the stumps and even produced a spectacular run-out.
Rohit took to social media a day following India's crushing victory over the England team to deliver an incredible message for the three players: Jaiswal, Sarfaraz, and Jurel. With images of the three-team India players, Rohit captioned the Instagram story, saying, "Ye aajkal ke bacche".
India gave a target of 557 runs to the visitors in the 3rd test and with four more sessions left in the game, the visitors got crushed inside 40 overs on 122 runs only, giving India a significant lead of 2-1.
We have won a lot of matches on such wickets before. The turning tracks and on pitches where the ball turns remain our strength. It gives us balance
~Rohit told the media after the match.
We have given results for many years and we will get results in the future as well. But we don't have control over certain things — we don't discuss whether we want rank turners. We come here (at the venues) two days before the match and how much can we do anyway in two days? “The curators decide and make the pitch. We have the strength to play on any wicket and win on it. When we won the Test in South Africa (at Cape Town), everyone knew what kind of wicket it was
~he said
Rohit said the Indian team has found a way through all conditions witnessed in the first three Tests.
(In) the last three Tests we played, there were different challenges. In the first Test (Hyderabad), the ball was spinning and the pitch was slow. In Vizag, it was (keeping) low. As the game progressed, the wicket became slower. Here, it played well for the first three days.
Today, we saw that the ball was turning and it was low. This is (in) the nature (of pitches), we get pitches like these in India. But if we get rank turners, we will play on them as well
~Rohit added
Sarfaraz Khan has gained enough domestic cricket experience, according to the India captain, that the team management did not feel the need to discuss any plans with him before his debut here.
I haven't seen Sarfaraz bat that much. But all the people I've heard from, the players who are from Mumbai, (that) he's made runs in a lot of difficult situations for Mumbai.
~Rohit said
He's hungry for runs and for the last 4-5 years, he's continuously made runs in domestic cricket, so (that means) he's doing something good.
~Rohit said.
We didn't discuss any plans with him. Because I know that if you let him be, he'll do his job, which I've heard from the players from Mumbai.
~he added.