Skipper Rohit shows the fire still burns inside him

The opener needed to accumulate, rather than go all out from first ball, to stay in control. And he did that in style at Cuttack

- Somshuvra Laha

KOLKATA: As long as Rohit Sharma was dismantling bowlers, hitting double hundreds and winning, he couldn't be faulted for anything. But his relatively underplayed fallibility at home that also flared up in Australia showed that Rohit too is human. Sunday's spectacular riposte in the Cuttack ODI win over England thus brought relief following growing concern that Rohit was perhaps losing his touch.

The India skipper though was never thinking on those lines. "Look. When people have played for a number of years and scored so many runs over the years that means something," he told bcci.tv after India won at the Barabati Stadium. "I've played this game for a long time now and I understand what is required of me. So, it's just about going out and doing your things; and what I did today was one of my things. In my mind, it was just about doing the things that I do, try and bat the way I do."