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India skipper Rohit Sharma’s unsmooth spot of signifier continued arsenic helium was dismissed for conscionable 2 runs successful the 1st ODI against England astatine Nagpur connected Thursday with the location squad reeling astatine 19/2 aft besides losing Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Rohit, who lasted conscionable 7 deliveries, went aboriginal for a flick changeable disconnected Saqib Mahmood but lone got the toe-end of the bat which led to the shot going precocious and landing safely successful the palms of Liam Livingstone astatine mid-on.
The latest dismissal compounded to the Indian skipper’s problems arsenic helium present has conscionable 164 runs successful the past 15 innings crossed each formats.
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On Wednesday, Rohit didn’t look excessively pleased with questions connected his existent signifier and his aboriginal aft the ICC Champions Trophy successful the property league connected the eve of the archetypal ODI against England successful Nagpur.
When asked astir his deficiency of runs implicit the past respective months and the instrumentality to his favourite format, the Indian skipper mislaid his composure.
“What benignant of a question is that? This is simply a antithetic format, a antithetic time. As usual, arsenic cricketers, we cognize determination volition beryllium ups and downs and I person faced a batch successful my career, truthful this is thing caller to me. We cognize each time is simply a caller day, each bid is simply a caller series,” Rohit had changeable back.
“I americium looking guardant to the challenge, not looking astatine what has happened successful the past. Clearly you don’t, truthful evidently for maine besides determination is nary crushed to look backmost excessively much. A batch of bully things person happened arsenic well. It’s important that I absorption connected what is coming up and what lies up for me. It is arsenic elemental arsenic that. Look to effort and commencement the bid connected a high,” helium had added.
In the match, debutant pacer Harshit Rana (3/53) and seasoned left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (3/26) shared six wickets betwixt them arsenic India bowled retired England for a humble 248. Pacer Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel bagged a wicket apiece.
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England got disconnected to a flier, reaching 71 for nary nonaccomplishment successful lone 8 overs, but India fought backmost with regular wickets to not let the visitors tally distant with momentum.
While Phil Salt (43) and Ben Duckett (32) gave England a coagulated start, skipper Jos Buttler (52) and Jacob Bethell (51) deed fifties.
(With bureau inputs)
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