“Especially Jaddu yaar. Every ball he thinks it’s out”: Rohit Sharma

The use of DRS is very crucial in test matches, especially in the subcontinent. Australia truly knows the loss due to the unavailability of DRS which happened during the famous Headingly test in 2019 against England. India lost quick reviews in the test matches at Indore and thus were left short of reviews when needed. 

Ravindra Jadeja wasted 2 reviews which could have been definitely avoided. The ball during both reviews was missing by a long margin. But just when Ashwin trapped Marnus pinned on the front foot, India were hesitant to take a review as they only had one in the bank. The ball tracking showed three reds and the batter would have been gone if India had used their reviews efficiently. The match was at knife edge at that point and a wicket would have tilted things in India’s favor. 

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma has been wary of using the reviews vigilantly during the fourth test match of the series. Rohit said that they need to avoid these ‘silly mistake’ in Ahmedabad. They’ve had seven reviews rejected out of 12 referrals as a fielding side, for a 58 percent failure rate. Australia’s share is 50%. (8 out of 16).

Rohit talks about Jadeja and reviews

“Especially Jaddu [Jadeja] yaar. Every ball he thinks it’s out. I understand, they’re quite animated, it’s just the passion of the game, but that’s where my role comes in, to say bhai, relax a little, it’s okay if it’s at least ending up somewhere near the stumps, but this isn’t even hitting the stumps, and some balls were even pitching outside [leg stump], so that was a silly mistake that we made but we hope to correct that in this game and we’ll have a small chat regarding this as well, and hopefully we can get it right in this game,” Rohit said on Wednesday (March 8).

Rohit talks about DRS

“DRS is a tricky one, honestly. It’s like a lottery. You get it right, you get it right, otherwise… you’ve just got to hope for the best,” he said. “You’ve just got to understand certain aspects of DRS – pitching in line, impact in line, those kinds of things, because in India there’s not too much bounce, so not every ball that hits the pad, the bounce is going to be a factor, but it’s crucial to understand impact and pitching.

“Especially in the last game, it was turning a lot, so we had to look at three aspects – pitch in line, impact in line, and then how much the ball is turning. When we played in Delhi, it was not turning so much, so it was only the impact and probably the line where it pitched, whether it’s outside leg or in line. So that is how you assess, and that is what we try and do as well. When we played in Indore, we didn’t realize that it was going to turn so much, so we quickly gathered our thoughts and said, okay, this looks like it’s going to turn a bit, so we need to understand how much it turns and where the ball will eventually end up.”

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