Ravi Shastri’s comment on Indian cricket team being overconfident has been marked ‘absolutely rubbish’ by Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma. Ahead of the final and fourth Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Sharma said that the team is ruthless, and not overconfident.
What happened?
After India’s brutal loss in Indore to Australia, Ravi Shastri called the Indian cricketers overconfident. Indians were 2-0 ahead in the series when Australia thrashed the hosts in Indore. Now Indians will be taking on the visitors led by Steve Smith in the final match. The result was shocking to the experts and fans. The way Indians were beaten, former coach Ravi Shastri went on to say, “This is what a little complacency, a little bit of overconfidence can do when you take things for granted, you drop guard and this game will bring you down.”
Speaking of the same, Rohit Sharma explained ahead of the final Test match in Ahmedabad, “Honestly, when you win two games, if the people outside are feeling that we are overconfident, it’s absolutely rubbish, because you want to do your best in all four games.”
Captain explains
Sharma while asked about the same, did not agree to Shastri. “Obviously, all these guys, when they talk about being overconfident and all that, especially the guys who are not part of the dressing room, they don’t know what kind of talk happens in the dressing room. Ruthless is the word that comes to my mind, and it comes to every cricketer’s mind, being ruthless. Not to give any inch to the opposition when they are playing, especially when they’re touring abroad, and that is exactly what we have also experienced when we have toured outside. The opposition will never let you come into the game, never let you come into the series. And that is the mindset we have as well.”
He later reminded that Ravi Shastri as the former coach of the side knows the mindset of the team. “We want to do best in all the games. If it seems overconfident or anything like that to the outsiders, it doesn’t really matter to us, because Ravi himself has been in this dressing room, and he knows what sort of mindset we have when we play. It’s about being ruthless, not being overconfident.”
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