Team India star opener Rohit Sharma is all set to start the bilateral series against New Zealand from at his home ground, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on October 22. Opening the inning alongside Ajinkta Rahane, Rohit played a very good cricket in the series against Australia and is expected to continue his good form against the Kiwis as well. Ahead of the first face-off, Rohit interacted with media personnel and expressed that India would like to replicate their Australia performance against New Zealand.
In the pre-match press conference, Rohit said,
“It’s always special to play in front of your home crowd. It makes you feel good about yourself that you are going to play at the ground where you grew up playing all your age group cricket. It’s good for me personally to start off the series from Mumbai.”
#TeamIndia opener @ImRo45 cannot wait to set the ball rolling on home turf #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/itx8BCYKok
— BCCI (@BCCI) October 20, 2017
On being asked about the form of the team, Rohit said,
“It depends on how we start and what we want to do as a team. We would like to begin from where we left against Australia. We would like to carry the form ahead against New Zeland as well. Since there was small gap between both the series, the guys are in their groove and I hope we put up the same performance as we did in the last series against Australia.”
“We want to continue the winning momentum from Australia series”, says Vice-captain @ImRo45 #TeamIndia #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/9xlPKxeo3s
— BCCI (@BCCI) October 20, 2017
The Kiwis has arrived a week ago and played two practice games against Indian Board President’s XI. The Kiwis lost the first game by 30 runs while they won the second by 33 runs.
The first match will be played on October however, New Zealand had a huge blow right ahead of the beginning of the series. Leg-spinner Todd Astle, who was about to make a debut in ODIs, has been dropped from the squad due to an injury. Leggie Ish Sodhi has replaced him and made entry into the ODI squad.
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