Rohit Sharma: Players need to play similar roles in IPL, domestic games | Cricket News – Times of India

Rohit Sharma is a man with an uncluttered plan. Perhaps, this was his magic recipe to win five IPL titles as Mumbai Indians captain.
He has never been big on having multiple theories. And he doesn’t mind conceding: “India has been brilliant in this particular format. It’s just that we haven’t won the ICC tournament. Of course, there are little holes that we need to fill up and that will be the biggest challenge as a team,” Rohit said on the eve of the first T20I against New Zealand in Jaipur.

For Rohit, assigning definite roles to his players is the key. And it goes down to domestic and IPL matches too. In the recent T20 World Cup, it came to the fore that most batters are comfortable batting in the top four and there was hardly any option for the late middle-order.
“Our boys play Syed Mushtaq Ali and IPL and they play differently for their franchisees and states. When they come here, they have different roles. We strictly want to assign the role which they do here matters. For that, it can take a few games or it can take a while,” he asserted.
And India’s brand of T20 cricket has been questioned. The overtly conservative approach looked outdated in front of their competition. But Rohit insisted that it was more important to make a brand of their own than tailing other teams. “We just need to set the template right and we have got some time to do that. I am not going to say that we are going to follow a certain team’s template. We just have to create our own template and what is best for our team,” he claimed.
“We are starting afresh after the T20 World Cup. We want to absorb and we have set some ideas and thoughts for this particular series. Let’s see how it pans out and we will take it from there,” Rohit added.