- Under the captaincy of Indian captain Rohit Sharma, Team India has made a great start to the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. On 20 February, India played the first match of the tournament against Bangladesh in Dubai…
Under the captaincy of Indian captain Rohit Sharma, Team India has made a great start to the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. On 20 February, India played the first match of the tournament against Bangladesh in Dubai, in which the Indian players performed brilliantly and won by six wickets. Batting first, Bangladesh scored 228 runs. In response, Team India scored 231 runs and won the match. In such a situation, let us know what captain Rohit Sharma has to say after this victory…
India won by 6 wickets
The performance of the Indian players against Bangladesh in the second match of the Champions Trophy 2025 has been amazing, due to which Team India managed to win by six wickets. In such a situation, captain Rohit Sharma praised the players and said that,
“You should be full of confidence before playing in any game. As you chase a target, different emotions come out. But you should be prepared. We have been in such a situation before. There is a lot of experience in the dressing room to keep patience. KL and Gill were very calm at the end. It was very difficult to get anything from the track in this game. There was not much grass on it, we knew it would be on the slower side, and that is how it played. As a team, I think we adapted very well to the conditions, both with bowling and batting.”
Praise for Mohammed Shami
Rohit Sharma further said that he is very happy with Mohammed Shami’s performance. He said,
Very happy for Shami. Waiting for a long time. We know what he brings to us. The quality he has. Whenever we give him the ball he has something and we need players like him on big occasions. We know how much class Gill has. He has been batting brilliantly recently and what he showed today should not surprise anyone. It was good to see that he stayed till the end. I might take him for dinner tomorrow [he dropped a catch that could have given Axar a hat-trick]. That was a simple catch, I should have taken that catch.
Said this about fielding
The performance of Indian players in fielding against Bangladesh was not very good. Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel increased India’s problems by dropping the catches of Tohriday Hussain and Zaker Ali. Talking on this matter, Rohit Sharma said that,
The standards I have set by standing in the slips, but these things happen. Credit goes to Hriday and Jacker for building that big partnership. Not sure about the pitch, but it will be similar to today. I am not a curator to tell you how the pitch will be. There have been a lot of games here and we will come here on the 23rd and see how it looks.