A Classy Player Will Excel In Any Format

Besides the obvious class and skill, technique and experience you need nerves of steel to come good under these circumstances and Rohit showed that when it comes to temperament...

- Partab Ramchand

You can’t hide class. A classy player will excel in any situation, any position in the batting order and in any format. Rohit Sharma emphasized this on Wednesday. Going in to bat he was clearly under tremendous pressure and it mattered little that he has been around for a dozen years at the international level. He was asked to do a specialist job for the first time in the traditional format of the game, his record in Test cricket was erratic and there was so much talk about him being pushed up the order with the experts weighing the pros and cons. Moreover, he was up against two bowlers Vernon Philander and Kagiso Rabada who had dismissed him three times each mainly for low scores in Tests.