Opener batsman Rohit Sharma praised India\u2019s vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane for his crucial contribution after the end of Day one in Chennai. Both Rohit\u2019s and Rahane\u2019s forms were questioned previous; today both of them steered the ship when India were tottering at a vital juncture.<\/p>\n
\u201cAjinkya is one of our top players. He has done extremely well, played quite a few crucial knocks. He has time and again proved his ability by stepping up when the team needs someone to do so. He has done it so many times\u201d Rohit told the press.<\/span><\/p>\n Rahane has been inconsistent with the bat over the past 2-3 years at home. But he has bailed the team out of the troubles so many times.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cToday also, we had a crucial partnership because we lost 3 wickets before Lunch. He walked into bat at a crucial juncture. We had to build a partnership. We have seen many times he has made runs, shown batsmanship in difficult times. I don\u2019t understand why there is discussion (about his batting form). His knock was very important and our partnership was also very important for the team,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n The Chepauk pitch offered turn and bounce that helped the spinners to get early breakthrough. Shubman Gill and captain Virat Kohli departed without scoring a run. But both the Mumbaikars roped the innings and helped India to pile up runs.<\/p>\n \u201cWe constantly kept chatting with each other and that, I think, was important to our long partnership. We have a good understanding of each other as we have played a lot together. So, it helped us,\u201d Rohit said during the virtual match press conference.<\/p>\n \u201cWe made sure the team was in a comfortable position at Tea because, on this wicket, 350 is a very good score. We still have 4 wickets. We will hope Pant and Axar can bat longer and score as many runs as possible. We know the wicket will turn a lot from Day 2. There are already rough patches on this pitch,\u201d Rohit added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Opener batsman Rohit Sharma praised India\u2019s vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane for his crucial contribution after the end of Day one in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":25233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[606,1138],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ajinkya-rahane","tag-ecb"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}