 India can beat Aussies in finals: Rohit Sharma
29th Feb 2008 20:02 IST
Agencies
"I feel we can do it. We were 54 for 4 the other night against Australia and ended up scoring 300 runs," Sharma said.
Not one to get overawed by reputations, Sharma has taken the likes of Brett Lee as just another bowler in international circuit.
"Even when I was young, there were a few bowlers in our "galli" cricket whom batsmen used to dread to face. I always accepted the challenge as these things keep confronting you all the time. It doesn't matter to me if I am playing Brett Lee or Shoaib Akhtar," he said.
Sharma firmly refused to be drawn into any controversy on the amount of sledging and bad blood which has existed between the two teams this summer.
He almost pleaded to be kept out of it after questions became thicker on the recent incident of Matthew Hayden going after Harbhajan Singh in a radio interview recently.
But one thing he could not resist clarifying was the run-out he caused to his captain Dhoni in Adelaide which led to India's sorry defeat by 50 runs last on February 17.
"Actually, the confusion was caused by the umpire. He kept telling me that I couldn't take start. Anyway that's past. Mahi told me not to worry about it. He also told me that it would be me who would run for him, if required, in future," he said. |
