India’s Champions Trophy victory has been an entire crew effort in which everybody has stepped up at totally different factors to make very important contributions.
While the huge tons of from Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill, or the five-wicket hauls of Mohammed Shami and Varun Chakaravarathy will likely be mentioned in the coming days, there have been fairly just a few unsung heroes.
Okay.L. Rahul and Shreyas Iyer had been two such gamers whose constant performances made some nervy chases look way more easy than they had been.
Rahul moved down to No. 6 to accommodate a left-hander in Axar Patel at his outdated spot and have a left-right combine in the line-up. It meant he had to reinvent his sport, usually needing to be aggressive instantly and put the stress again on the bowlers.
Rahul scored an important unbeaten 34 in the ultimate. More impressively, the 32-year-old stayed until the finish whereas chasing and received the job achieved on all three events.
“It requires a lot of preparation and work outside the cricket field, just sitting and thinking about how I need to take each game and how I need to perform in different situations. I watched some of the players that I liked and saw how successful they had been. I am happy that I’ve been given different tools and I have been able to perform,” he stated.
Similarly, Shreyas strengthened his credentials as certainly one of the finest No.4 batters in the world, topping the run charts for the Men in Blue with 243 runs. Skipper Rohit Sharma even known as the Mumbai batter a ‘silent hero.’
“Throughout the tournament he was brilliant and important to us in that middle phase. He stitched partnerships with all the batters who were batting with him. With Virat, in the semifinal against Australia and also against Pakistan. Even today (on Sunday), to be honest, when I got out, we had lost three wickets. And at that time, we needed a partnership of 50 to 70 runs, which (Axar) and Shreyas did,” stated Rohit.
Published – March 10, 2025 09:30 pm IST
