 India can beat Aussies in finals: Rohit Sharma
29th Feb 2008 20:02 IST
Agencies
Young Indian middle order batsman Rohit Sharma feels the youngsters in the team would need to rise up to the occasion to win the Tri-Series finals against Australia starting Sunday.
"In the absence of seniors there is pressure and it would be good for the youngsters if we were to win the trophy," said Sharma in Sydney.
Rohit has played in all the games of the Tri-Series and scored a mere 167 runs at 33.40 but a couple of his knock have drawn heaps of praise from the likes of Ian Chappell and Sachin Tendulkar.
Chappell has been very impressed with Sharma's technique and so has been the case with Tendulkar who rates his backfoot play of good quality.
Sharma, though, feels he has not quite done justice to his talent in the series.
"I feel I could have done better and in this regard this series has been a learning experience. I have learnt how to build innings when I walked in to bat against Australia in Melbourne we were five down for 102, needing 160 runs to win.
"The one advice (Mahendra Singh Dhoni) Mahi gave me was if we stayed at the wicket the runs would come and so it happened," he said.
India put it across Australia in that game of the Tri-Series and Sharma feels that it's not beyond them to beat the world champions again in the best-of-three finals.
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