New Delhi: Virat Kohli-led Indian cricket team toured England last year for a five-match Test series. However, the fifth and final match of that Test series had to be rescheduled due to Covid outbreak in Indian camp and was recently played in Edgbaston. Rohit Sharma, back then, had batted remarkably well in that series last year. In the first 4 matches of this series, Rohit Sharma scored 36, 82, 59, and 127 runs. Rohit had scored a century in the Oval Test, his first Test century on foreign soil.
Rohit, who was recovering from Coronavirus, was not a part of the Indian team in the rescheduled Edgbaston Test, but remained the highest run-scorer for India even after the series ended. He scored 368 runs in 4 Tests. Now the then-Indian coach Ravi Shastri has shared an incident related to Rohit Sharma during that series.
According to Ravi Shastri, Rohit Sharma was very disappointed after missing a well-deserved ton in the Lord's Test (Ind vs Eng 2nd Test). Rohit was dismissed for 83 runs, resulting in him missing out on a century by just 17 runs. As per Shastri, after getting out, Rohit came to the dressing room and sat quietly, and was in a daze.
“When Rohit got out, he came back to the dressing room and just sat quietly on a table. He was in a daze. He just wanted that hundred. A special feeling for any player to get a hundred at Lord’s. And you could see that he was really really dejected. But he made up for it at The Oval,” Shastri said on air during the 2nd ODI between India and England at Lord’s.
England chased down its highest-ever total in their Test cricket history to beat India in the rescheduled Edgbaston Test, ending the series in a 2-2 draw. Chasing 378, England crushed India by seven wickets with Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root notching up 269 runs for the fourth wicket.