‘Ek aur overseas Test aur fir ye bahar hoga’ – Fans react after Rohit Sharma gets hit on his thumb during nets ahead of WTC final

Ahead of the World Test Championship final, India skipper Rohit Sharma has gotten hit on his thumb during nets. After getting hit on his left thumb, he was attended by the physio, Kamalesh. The latter applied tape on Sharma’s thumb. The India skipper tried to put his gloves back on but decided against it, which might be a precautionary measure.

The incident happened a day ahead of the final against Australia. Notably, in the WTC cycle 2021-23, Sharma played only one overseas series, i.e against England in 2021. Since then, the 36-year-old missed South Africa (entirely), a one-off Test in England, Test series against Bangladesh. Meanwhile, the fans wouldn’t want him to miss the summit clash.

You got to be adaptable in English conditions: Rohit Sharma

“If you’re going to play, this is something that you have to come up with mentally. You got to be adaptable, adjust whatever little tweak you need to do in your technique,” he said. “But more than that, I think it’s just talking to yourself and getting mentally ready. Lot of the other guys in the squad haven’t done that because we’ve got a lot of new faces in the squad as well.

“For me, it’s just been really talking to myself, getting mentally ready, because that is something that a lot of us have been doing for many years.”

“England, in general, is pretty challenging conditions for the batters, but as long as you are prepared to have a good grind, you know, you can have some success as a batter,” he said. “One thing I realised batting [in 2021] was you are never in actually because the weather keeps changing a lot. So you got to keep concentrating for longer periods of time and that is the challenge of this format. You know, you’ll get that message or you can get that intuition when is your time to take the bowler on and that is when you should be ready for it and more importantly, you need to be there.”