Published 19:51 IST, March 8th 2023

‘It’ll be travesty if he gets dropped…': Aakash Chopra has one advise for Rohit Sharma

Former India opener Aakash Chopra feels that it will be 'travesty' if KS Bharat gets dropped in fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.

Reported by: Saksham Nagar
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India wicket keeper-batter KS Bharat made his debut in first Test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia. While he has t been able to perform well with bat but has produced some good dismissals behind wickets. KS Bharat came following accident of Rishabh Pant who has been Team India's full time wicketkeeper in Tests from a long time.

Aakash said: 'It will be a travesty..'

Former India opener Aakash Chopra feels that it will be 'travesty' to drop KS Bharat in fourth Test as top order,too, has t been scoring runs. Aakash Chopra said in a tweet, ""KS Bharat has been thing less than outstanding behind stumps. Scored valuable runs in second innings of Delhi Test too. It will be a travesty if he gets benched for t contributing more with bat…in a team where main batters are underperforming…"

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In terms of Bharat's batting, skipper Rohit Sharma mirrored head coach Rahul Dravid's views about taking challenge of batting on se tracks into account.

Rohit said, "He (Bharat) has spent a lot of time in domestic cricket, India A,... So, it will be slightly unfair to judge him on se kinds of wickets. Especially if someone is making ir debut, you have got to give him eugh room or innings for him to set himself up for a big score."

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Rohit also opened up on his conversation with KS Bharat, "That is important, it's something I spoke to him before start of series as well. 'Do t worry about what kind of pitches we will play, you will get eugh time to prove yourself because se pitches are t easy'. If you want to play on pitches like that, you have got to be ready for guys failing in some of innings as well."

"You have got to back those guys, that's what we are doing with KS. KS, like I said, he's going lots of runs (in domestic cricket). Lots of experience in domestic cricket, good keeper, spoke to Ishan also. When he gets his chance, he will get a number of games. We will t drop him after playing just two. It will be unfair", Rohit said about Ishan Kishan's inclusion in team.

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19:51 IST, March 8th 2023