Extend, expand

With the T20 World Cup squad already picked India skipper Rohit Sharma wants his players to get out of their comfort zone and explore new things about their game in the six home games against Australia and South Africa ahead of the ICC showpiece next monthRohit feels players can now afford to extend their lsquolimitsrsquo without the pressure of selectionThe management will be giving rest to the likes of Hardik Pandya Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Arshdeep Singh over the six games but by and large it will have a full squad at its disposallsquoWanted to bring securityrsquoRohitrsquos comments come in the backdrop of its Asia Cup campaign in which the team management experimented quite a bit and copped criticism for that ldquoI wanted to bring security in the team and that is why we announced the team for both the series before the World Cup Australia and South Africa In Asia Cup also we more or less had the same teamrdquo said Rohit ahead of the series opener against AustralialdquoIn these six games we want to keep trying what we can achieve with different styles It is all about going out and trying to find ways of exploring ourselves but there is no limit to trying new things You can extend yourself in so many directions to achieve so many things for the teamrdquoAlso Read Shane Warnersquos children slam lsquobeyond disrespectfulrsquo seriesVirat Kohli went out of his comfort zone during the Asia Cup and played a rare sweep shot and Rohit wants even the bowlers to push their limitsldquoWe will keep encouraging people to be more expressive For example someone who doesnrsquot play reverse sweep can he play that and see if he can do it right Someone can hit down the ground things you are not comfortable doing you do that and see what happensldquoWhen you go into the World Cup you should have all these answers For bowlers they can try opening the spell with a yorker or a bouncerrdquo said the skipperAfter the early exit from the T20 World Cup last year India were forced to change their batting approach and Rohit said the team will continue to play aggressive and in case it loses early wickets the back up plan is in placeSame approachldquoWe will continue to play like that That is something we spoke quite clearly at the start of my captaincy tenure and everyone is comfortable with that At the same time we know our second line of defence if we are in trouble We spend a lot of time talking about these thingsrdquo he saidldquoGuys are very clear if we are 10 for three how we need to bat If we are 50 for no loss how we need to bat These have been discussed at length it is just about executing nowrdquoTalking more about the batting style Rohit said ldquoThis approach of ours has given us a lot of trust that we can go out and play like that It is a great sign We will have another review meeting of the last 10 months after these six games and will see what we need to do in the World CuprdquoAlso Read David Warner and CA to discuss overturning lifetime captaincy banThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever