Don’t agree we are playing conservative cricket: Rohit Sharma

TIL Desk Sports/ Captain Rohit Sharma believes the new fearless approach adopted by India in the shortest format will result in occasional failures but disagrees that they played ‘conservative’ cricket during last year’s T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Rohit said the new approach provides more freedom to players, which has yielded success after the disappointing World Cup campaign, where India were eliminated in the league stage.

“We didn’t get the result from the last World Cup but that doesn’t mean we played bad cricket all these years and I don’t agree we were playing conservative cricket,” Rohit said ahead of the five-match T20 series against the West Indies which begins at the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad on Friday.

“If you lose one or two matches in the World Cup, it feels like we were doing this and that, we were not taking our chances. It’s not like that. If you look at the overall games that we have played leading into the World Cup, we won 80 per cent of our games. “If we were conservative, how can we win so many matches? That’s fine that we lost in the World Cup, didn’t qualify but that happens. That doesn’t mean we are playing with fear, not playing openly.