There is real intent: Nasser Hussain on India's winning run

Former England captain Nasser Hussain says the Rohit Sharmaled Indian team is showing real intent to win the ongoing World Cup after playing timid cricket in the T20 showpiece last yearIndia made short work of Bangladesh in Pune on Thursday to maintain their winning run in the tournament as the likes of skipper Rohit Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill continued to sizzle with the batAlso ReadICC World Cup 2023 We need to get up to the mark in first 10 overs with ball says Babar AzamSpeaking to Star Sports Hussain said Rohit has been the best in the business for a long time as far as limitedovers cricket was concernedI have thought for a long time hes one of the best whiteball batters there has ever been His record is up there with the best hes done it in World CupsHis record against Bangladesh is magnificent his pull shot at one stage we showed a graphic he was averaging 400 in the pull shot in the last couple of years He got out to it in the end but not before he had done a lot of damageThe exploits of the formidable trio of Rohit Kohli and Gill was not lost on the former England cricketerThe most important thing I like is intent there is real intent for a while they played a bit of timid cricket in the T20 World Cup in Australia and they lost to England in Adelaide in that semifinalThis looks like a different top three the way Rohit Shubman and Virat are playing are going to put a lot of top order bowlers under pressureBesides his batting Rohit has also been praised for his captaincy in the showpiece with Hussain singling out his effective rotation of bowlersJust the way when you lose a bowler the way you have to think about bowlers are key moments in the games Kuldeep was bowling really well and he realised the way Siraj has come back with those crossseam deliveries and then he went to Siraj he got the wicket and then he went back to Kuldeep Jadeja and BumrahHe just rotated his bowlers and as Dinesh Karthik said on commentary it wasnt just the rotation he was always rotating looking to get a wicket So a bit like his batting where he has the attacking option its the same with his captaincyLast but not the least Hussain lavished praise on Kohli after the maestro recorded his 48th ODI hundred in the sevenwicket win against BangladeshKohli always plays the situation and thats why he is brilliant in run chases He sees the situation out there in front of him he wont be much off the strike rate anyway because he never takes up deliveries or chews up deliveriesOn a pitch like this if you wanted to go into another gear if he was chasing 350 Kohli wouldve gone into another gear but he was just making sure India got over the line as he often doesThis 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