Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar has predicted that a huge hundred is coming soon from the bat of India captain Rohit Sharma after the batter failed to build on his good start in the first ODI against New Zealand in Hyderabad.
He made 34 runs with some authority, but couldn’t manage to capitalize on the good start. Sharma's last century in the ODI format came back in 2020 against Australia in Bangalore. Since then. Sharma has looked good in recent matches but has not been able to find a century so far.
Sanjay Manjrekar shared his opinions on the same and said that till the time India is getting big scores, the management would not be bothered about the lack of big scores from the captain.
"As long as India are getting the big scores, the team management wouldn’t be too worried. But, you want all your batters to be sort of get big scores. Nonetheless, I don’t see any problem with the way he is hitting the ball.
Today he was leaving a lot of balls outside the off-stump, which made me think he has got his mind set on getting the big score. And then the wicket happened. Mid-on and mid-off were inside the circle. So it’s a huge temptation for somebody like Rohit to try and play a shot like that,” Manjrekar said on Star Sports.
Rohit hit four boundaries and two sixes against New Zealand in the 1st ODI.
"I have no idea as to why the big scores are not coming. I don’t see any obvious signs there that he is not batting well. With Virat Kohli, we saw that he was not in the kind of form we expect or what got used to over the years. Rohit Sharma seems to be striking the ball pretty well, goes to 30-40s, 70-80s in the series against Sri Lanka. But the hundreds are evading him. I don’t have a problem with him not getting hundreds as long as India are scoring 350 and above.
A hundred might just be around the corner because there are no obvious signs that he is out of form or struggling," the former player concluded with a hope.
