India vs Sri Lanka: Rohit Sharma happy to have healthy headache after Shreyas Iyer's dream run in T20Is
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India vs Sri Lanka; Rohit Sharma conceded that selection is not going to be easy, highlighting that he is happy with the way the likes of Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja and other took their opportunities in their 3-0 win over the visitors.
Captain Rohit Sharma conceded that team selection will become a bit more challenging for him and head coach Rahul Dravid after taking a lot of positives from their 3-0 series sweep of Sri Lanka in Dharamsala on Sunday. Rohit heaped praise on Shreyas Iyer after the Kolkata Knight Riders captain came up with a series-winning performance, hitting 3 successive fifties and finishing with 204 runs without getting dismissed even once.
In the T20I series win over West Indies earlier this month, Suryakumar Yadav put his hand up with 107 runs. During that 3-0 sweep, captain Rohit had highlighted how hard it was to keep a player like Iyer out of the XI as India played Suryakumar, Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant in the middle order.
While Iyer got only one chance in the series against the West Indies, he made the most of the opportunities that came his way against Sri Lanka, becoming only the 2nd Indian baiter after Kohli to hit 3 successive fifties in a T20I series.
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Iyer hit 57 not out from just 28 balls in the first T20I, 74 not out in just 44 balls in India's stunning chase of 184 in the 2nd T20I and 73 not out from just 45 balls in the finale on Sunday.
India also saw the return of Ravindra Jadeja, who played handy cameos while batting higher-up the order in the 3-match series while Venkatesh Iyer has also continued his good run. Sanju Samson, who returned to the T20I side for the first time in 7 months, also put his hand up, hitting a crucial 39 in the 2nd T20I.
"It's going to be a big challenge but it's nice to have guys in form rather than not in form. If the guys take the opportunity the way some of these guys have taken, you can move from strength to strength," Rohit said when asked about the problem of plenty with Iyer showing glimpses of peak form in the shortest format of the game.
