Published 16:13 IST, November 6th 2019

Rajkot pitch will be better than Delhi: Rohit Sharma ahead of 2nd T20

In a press conference ahead of their second encounter with Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma addressed spoke about changes in the team in regards to the pitch.

Reported by: Prachi Mankani
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After loss against Bangladesh in first T20, Rohit Sharma addressed a press conference ahead of ir second encounter with Bangladesh and spoke about changes in team in regards to pitch. second T20 is slated to take place on vember 7 at Rajkot. Rohit, in his address, asserted pitch of Rajkot to be better than Delhi especially in terms of bowling.

"By look of it, pitch looks good. Rajkot has always been a good track to bat and it does offer some assistance to bowler also. So it will be a good pitch and will be better than what we saw in Delhi," said Rohit.

India's bowling attack in first T20 was t up to mark. However, Rohit Sharma stated that team doesn't need to focus too much on what happened back in Delhi. He furr mentioned that re will be change in batting line up. However, bowling attack will be decided after analysing pitch.

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"I don't think we need to think about what happened re (Delhi). Of course, I think combination that we played in last game was based on pitch, so we will see pitch again today and decide what we need to do in our bowling line up and our batting line up looks good so I don't think we need any change re. We will analyze pith and see if re is any difference  and based on that we will try to see what we can do as a team," he said.

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First T20 in Delhi 

In a thrilling last-over match, Captain Mahmudullah finished off in style as Bangladesh beat India in first T20 at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi by 7 wickets. This was also Bangladesh's first victory against Men in Blue in T20 cricket.  much-speculated match, owing to high pollution levels in Delhi, witnessed low-scoring but a spectacular show from Bangladesh team as y took match up till last over to hand India defeat in first match of three-match T20 series.

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15:50 IST, November 6th 2019