‘We can bat well on any kind of surface’
Updated On: 07 June, 2024 07:48 AM IST | New York | R Kaushik
India’s batting coach Vikram Rathour says team have enough skills and experience to deal with challenging New York wicket after eight-wicket victory over Ireland
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India’s captain Rohit Sharma during his 52 against Ireland on Wednesday. Pic/AFP
Rishabh Pant uncorked an audacious reverse-scoop like only he can, sending Barry McCarthy scurrying over the fence right behind the wicketkeeper to bring up the six that formalised India’s eight-wicket victory, with 46 deliveries to spare, against Ireland on Wednesday. It was the perfect start to India’s T20 World Cup campaign at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, but the talking point wasn’t so much about Jasprit Bumrah’s brilliance, Rohit Sharma’s 30th T20I half-century and Pant’s promotion to No. 3 as the nature of the playing surface, seriously flirting with the ‘dangerous’ category.
“It was a challenging wicket and we were expecting a challenging wicket because we played a practice game here,” said Vikram Rathour, India’s batting coach. Challenging, because all Ireland mustered on being put in was 96 all out, the second time in two matches here that the team batting first had failed to touch 100—Sri Lanka were dismissed on Monday for 77 by South Africa.
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