Rohit sharma on axar patel: Chasing the target in the first ODI of the series against England in Nagpur, the Indian team management took a shocking decision and promoted Akshar Patel and sent them ahead of batsmen like KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya. Akshar Patel also met the management decision and he scored 52 runs in 47 balls with six fours and a six.

During this time, Akshar Patel shared 108 runs off 107 balls for the fifth wicket. Gill and Akshar’s partnership was the biggest partnership of this match. At the same time, when Rohit Sharma was asked a question about sending Akshar first after the match, he said that the team wanted a left -handed batsman in the middle order.

Rohit Sharma spoke on Akshar Patel’s batting

Praising all -rounder Akshar Patel, Rohit said, “We needed a left -handed player in the middle. We know that there are some England spinners who would bowl to the left -handed batsmen and we wanted that a left -handed batsman Be on the field. ” Rohit said, “In the last few years we have seen how much the letter has done as a cricketer, especially with our bat and today we got to see it again. We were under a little pressure at that time, we need a partnership Thi and Gill and Akshar really batted well. “

If we talk about Akshar Patel’s batting record, then he has scored 620 runs in 61 ODIs played for India. Akshar has three fifties in ODIs. In List A, Akshar has scored 2513 runs in 160 matches at an average of 29.22. However, the record of the letter in the test is a bit better. Akshar has scored in the Test at an average of 35.88. At the same time, in first class cricket, he has scored 2475 runs at an average of 36.39. Akshar also has a century in first class cricket.

This is the condition of the match

If we talk about the match, India defeated England by four wickets in the first ODI in the first ODI played at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur on Thursday after the brilliant bowling of Ravindra Jadeja and debutant Harshit Rana. Batting first after winning the toss, the entire team of England was reduced to 248 runs in 47.4 overs. After this, India won by four wickets by scoring 251/6 runs in just 38.4 overs with a partnership of 96 between Gill (87) and Shreyas Iyer (59) and 108 runs between Gill and Akshar Patel (52).

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