Srikar Bharat, who took over for Rishabh Pant following his injury, has excelled behind the stumps but has only scored 57 runs at an average of 14.25 in the series.<\/p>\n
While Jharkhand\u2019s Ishan Kishan, who is also in the squad, may be considered a better fit for Pant due to his batting abilities, Rohit appears to be leaning towards Bharat in the near future.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeaking about Pant, it\u2019s a big miss. We all know what he can do with the bat, and also the keeping, the last couple of years he\u2019s kept well for us on turning pitches,\u201d Rohit added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a big miss. When we knew he wasn\u2019t going to be available for us, that was one of the reasons we got Ishan in because obviously he\u2019s a left-hander, can play attacking cricket.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut speaking about Bharat. He has spent a lot of time in domestic cricket, played a lot of Ranji Trophy, India \u2018A\u2019 team cricket, Zonals and scored a lot of runs. So it will be slightly unfair to judge him on these pitches.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rohit stated that he had assured Bharat of his spot at the start of the series.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIf someone\u2019s making a debut in the series, you\u2019ve got to give him enough room or enough innings for him to set himself up for a big score.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is something that I spoke to Bharat at the start of the series, do not worry about what kind of pitches we play on, or what challenges are ahead, you\u2019ll get enough time to prove yourself, because these pitches are not easy.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re playing on pitches such as these, you\u2019ve to be ready for guys failing in some innings as well. And you\u2019ve got to back those guys. And that is what we\u2019re doing with KS (Bharat). He has a lot of runs in domestic cricket, has experience, and he\u2019s a good keeper.<\/p>\n \u201cI spoke to Ishan as well, when he gets a chance, he\u2019ll get a number of games, he won\u2019t be dropped after a couple of Tests. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing with Bharat as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Srikar Bharat, who took over for Rishabh Pant following his injury, has excelled behind the stumps but has only scored\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3515,626,3343],"class_list":["post-5728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bgt23","tag-ishan-kishan","tag-ks-bharat"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}