‘Garden mein ghoomne wale bande’: Rohit’s classic on India’s Next-Gen stars | Cricket

India captain Rohit Sharma dropped another classic on Instagram, hours after the home team scripted a spectacular series win against England at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala. Rohit dedicated his post to India’s next generation of superstars, who took the series by storm, not allowing the hosts to miss Virat Kohli and KL Rahul, among other senior Test regulars. , while taking a cheeky dig.

Kohli missed India’s Test series due to the birth of his second child while Mohammed Shami underwent ankle surgery. Rahul was dropped after the first Test. Ravindra Jadeja missed the second Test. Jasprit Bumrah was left out for the fourth match and Ravichandran Ashwin missed a day of action during the third game due to personal reasons.

Up to five players – Rajat Patidar, Dhruv Jurel, Sarfaraz KhanAkash Deep and Devdutt Padikkal made their debut in the course of the series with Rohit lead a band of young Indian sailors that include the likes of Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal, which made its debut just last year. However, India beat England in every innings of the series, en route to a 4-1 victory in the five-match contest.

Hailing the sensational performance by the young players, Rohit took to Instagram to share a picture with them and captioned it, “Garden mein ghoomne wale tape.” The picture featured Jurel, Jaiswal, Gill and Sarfaraz.

For those not in the know, the dig bat itself refers to a certain stump mic reaction from Rohit, earlier during the series, which had gone viral on social media, where he spoke on similar lines to warn the players to be careful while living after he was left. disappointed with the efforts of the youngsters during the second Test in Vizag.

Speaking to Jio Cinema after the win by an innings and 64 runs in the fifth Test, Rohit revealed how the Indian management gave a sense of assurance to all the debutants, so that they feel relaxed about their position in the team in the course of the course. series.

“All these guys are extremely talented. All they needed was a little bit of assurance and a platform. We didn’t want to keep putting pressure on them. We wanted to make sure that our job at the beginning of the series was to give comfort them, and assurance that they are going to play all five Test matches. Because we can not accept, but it is the fact that plays in everyone’s mind, “Okay, if I do not do well in a couple of Test matches, he may be dropped.” Insecurity still creeps in,” the Indian captain said.

“The first thing we wanted to do was to make sure that they were given the freedom and comfort to go and express themselves. We saw the talent; there is no hiding from it. It’s just, for us, to make sure that we put a nice carpet red for them to come out and do it,” added Rohit.