The condition of the Indian cricket team in the Adelaide Day-Night Test match looks bad. By the end of the second day’s play, the Indian team had scored only 128 runs in the second innings. While the top-5 batsmen have returned to the pavilion. The Indian team is still 29 runs behind Australia on the basis of first innings, while it has only five wickets left. In this Test match, captain Rohit Sharma came to bat at number six, regarding which former Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting and former Team India opening batsman Sunil Gavaskar have completely different opinions.
While Sunil Gavaskar believes that it was absolutely right for Rohit Sharma to bat at number six, Ricky Ponting feels that he should have opened the innings with Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Rohit Sharma could not play in the first test match. In the first Test match played in Perth, Team India won by 295 runs. In the absence of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul gave a strong performance while opening the innings with Yashasvi Jaiswal. When Rohit returned, he made it clear that he would open Rahul’s innings and said that he would field in the middle order.
While Gavaskar defended Rohit’s decision to come down the batting order and said that this decision was perfect considering the balance of the team, Ponting said that Rohit should have come to bat in the top order. Rohit was able to score three runs in 23 balls in the first innings whereas in the second innings he could score only 6 runs in 15 balls.
