Something very special about Virat & Rohit: Sangakkara on 'orthodox but destructive' duo

Former Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara termed duo of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma as most defining pair for India in modern-day cricket who were orthodox yet destructive. ex-Lankan skipper opined that re was something special about both Indian skipper Virat Kohli and vice-skipper Rohit Sharma as duo had vast expertise & gained experience by playing in all three formats of game constantly. Sangakkara compared duo to likes of Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly and pointed out why y were better than players of era before m. 

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'Orthodox yet destructive'

"re is something very special about Virat and Rohit. That fact that rules have changed and run-scoring might have become slightly easier in one-day cricket, but it's incredibly hard, volume of cricket that India athletes play," Sangakkara said on Star Sports' 'Cricket Connected'. 

"So, I think you have to have a lot of respect for Rohit and Virat but understand that it's all because of players that have gone before and have done all hard work n as well. 

"So, it's a kck-on effect, so in every era, re's always a defining pair and in modern era, it's Rohit and Virat for India for sure."

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"If you look at Rahul and Dada, both of m are orthodox batsmen. y play beautiful cricket shots and are very technically correct. Dravid may be a little bit more so, but ability to be as destructive with such rate and precision stroke-making is something that has to be really admired."  

"If you take modern-day game, India has two of best players in Virat and Rohit, who play orthodox cricket but who are just absolutely destructive in any format of game. You don't have to muscle ball or put too much effort or look ugly doing it, y just play good cricket shots and results come," he concluded.

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'Postpone it to ar year': Kumar Sangakkara

Former Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara reckons that ICC T20 World Cup will t happen this year. seventh edition of showpiece event in T20 cricket is scheduled to be held in Australia in October-vember. However, reports have stated that event will be canceled due to global pandemic. A final decision regarding same will be taken by International Cricket Council (ICC) on June 10.

“Everyday, re are new learnings, new things being found out, so we will have to wait and see, but options may be to cancel it this year, postpone it to ar year, but to have in place anticipatory procedures that take into account health and safety of both players and spectators, and make sure that’s iron clad,”said former Sri Lankan skipper on on Star Sports show Cricket Connected.

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