Rohit Sharma. (Picture Credit: AFP)
Ahead of the start of the first Test of the two-match series between India and Bangladesh, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma addressed mediapersons in Chennai on Tuesday.
India will face Bangladesh in a two-match Test series at home, which is set to start on Thursday (September 19) in Chennai. Ahead of the series opener at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma attended a press conference on Tuesday, during which he said that every team wants to beat India, but the hosts are not bothered about what others say.
According to him, England also said a lot of things during the five-match Test series earlier this year, but India’s focus is always on its own game.
“Every team wants to beat India; they all enjoy that; lene do maje (let them enjoy). We have played a lot of cricket against variety of teams. We will focus on our own game. We don’t strategize differently whether it is Bangladesh, Australia or any other team. We will try and focus on our game.”
“When England came, they also spoke a lot in the press conferences, but we do not focus on that. We try to play good cricket and not think too much about opposition,” he said.
Rohit’s reaction came after Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto said that his team will try to win both matches against the Indian team in the upcoming series.
“This will be a challenging series for us but after having a good series against Pakistan, there is an extra confidence in our team as well as among all the people of the country,” Najmul told reporters in Bangladesh on Sunday before departing for India.
“Every series is an opportunity and we will play to win both the matches. (We will focus on) the things that we need to do for the win…the process is important and we need to do our job properly.”
“If we can do our job properly certainly a good result is possible but still it’s going to be very challenging. If you see the ranking they are far ahead of us but recently we played a good series and the most important thing is that how we can play good cricket. The result happens in the last session of the five days and so if we can play good cricket we have a chance to do well in the last session.
“It is important what plans need to be executed to play well for five days and there will be a chance to win but let’s not think too far ahead and focus on our strength and how we can play good cricket,” said Najmul.
