'People were saying it's so boring in Pakistan, so we...' - Rohit Sharma gives witty response when asked about Indian pitches

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Indian captain Rohit Sharma usually grabs attention with his hilarious responses to the interviewer during the match conference/presentation. Now, after the third Test in Indore, Rohit gave a cheeky response in the post-match presentation. So far India and Australia have played three matches in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and all three matches have ended in just three days. The third Test ended on Day 3 (Friday) with Australia easily overtaking the target by 9 wickets.

When Rohit was asked about the situation in India where Test matches don't last five days, the Indian skipper gave an interesting reply, claiming that the situation is the same even outside India.

“Matches don’t last five days even outside India. The game in South Africa got over in 3 days. In Pakistan, people were saying it's so boring, so we are making things interesting,” Rohit said in the post-match presentation.

Steve Smith and Co completely thrashed India in the 3rd as the hosts could only set a target of 76 runs. India were bowled out for 109 in the first innings and the story was no different in their second innings as they could only manage 163 after Nathan Lyon demolished the Indian batting line-up. Apart from Cheteshwar Pujara (59 off 142 balls), none of the other batters took responsibility. Australia, after losing the wicket of Usman Khawaja, played a disciplined knock to secure their first win of the series.

Rohit Sharma's befitting reply to a question about the Indore pitch

Meanwhile, when Rohit was also asked about the batting collapse in Indore, he gave a scathing reply. The Indian skipper said the discussion should revolve around Cheteshwar Pujara and Usman Khawaja's explosive batting and Nathan Lyon's brilliant spell.

“This pitch talk is getting just a bit too much. Every time we play in India, there’s only focus on the pitch. Why are people not asking me about Nathan Lyon? How well he bowled? How well Pujara batted in the second innings. How well Usman Khawaja played,” Rohit added. He further claimed that before every series, the host decides what kind of surface they want to offer and that’s the same privilege we are enjoying here in India.

“It was our mutual decision that we wanted to play on this kind of wickets. So, I don’t think we are putting pressure on our batters,” Rohit said. The top-order batter further admitted that his batters didn’t bat well in the first innings. “Once they got an 80-90 run lead, we had to produce another inning with the bat and we were not able to do that. If we had batted well in the first innings then things would have been different,” Rohit added.