Former Indian spinner and commentator Ravi Ashwin has asserted that no one can touch the Indian talismanic batting duo of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma if they are keen to play the ICC ODI World Cup 2027 in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Ashwin has also insisted that both batters have fan armies and a lot of fans come to stadiums to watch them bat. However, he reckoned that the same rules do not apply to the bowlers.
“They cannot touch Virat and Rohit if they want to play. It is because of their credentials. Rohit has scored almost 12,000 runs; they cannot touch him. The other thing is that they are batters, and if you touch them, they have an army. People come to see them. If you drop them, it will just break the roof down,” Ravi Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.
“But if Shami, Siraj, and Bhuvneshwar are not picked, just a maximum of ten thousand people would raise questions. There would not be that much noise. If a day comes when people make noise for bowlers, it would be difficult to drop them as well. Actually, it is impossible to drop Virat and Rohit. But such rules do not apply to the bowlers,” Ashwin added.
“All the experienced bowlers like Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Shami, and Mohammed Siraj have done well, and they all have a good chance. There will be help on the wickets in South Africa. You need to keep everyone in contention in this case scenario,” he noted.
Furthermore, Ashwin has also heaped praise on the Hitman, who scored an exceptional 138-run knock in the 388-run chase, adding that he has been in really good form and he doesn’t need to prove to anyone.
“This is a phenomenal knock. He was set after hitting that pull to Josh Tongue. I feel that this is Rohit’s road to a comeback after an injury. If he were in a slightly better state or were more confident, he could have scored 180 and won the match for the team. I felt like Rohit was in really good form,” he observed.
“The position he is in and the way he batted, it’s not that difficult for him. We have seen him for so many years; there’s nothing left to prove. Whom does he have to prove? It is only about the internal appetite: I want to go to the World Cup, that’s why I need to play like this,” he concluded.
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