Mumbai Indians\u2019 (MI) captain Rohit Sharma on Tuesday quipped that players from the West Indies cannot be guided and leaving them to do \u2018their thing\u2019 is one way to get the best out of them.<\/p>\n
Rohit\u2019s comments came as a reply to a query made on how he as Mumbai Indians\u2019 captain is guiding the young Evin Lewis, the explosive Caribbean batsman who is playing for the first time in the Indian Premier League .<\/p>\n
Lewis struck his first IPL half-century 65 off 42 balls with the help of six fours and five sixes and added 108 runs for the third wicket with Rohit to help Mumbai to a big score of 213\/6, which culminated in Mumbai Indians\u2019 first win in IPL 2018 by 46 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore .<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t guide West Indian players at all. You have to let them be themselves. If you try and talk to them and tell them, \u2018this is how you should defend\u2019, \u2018this is how you should play\u2019, (the) opposite (happens). Nothing will fall in place. It is better that we let them to (do) their thing and that\u2019s how you get the best out of them,\u201d Rohit told media post Mumbai\u2019s win.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing I have learn from handling Kieron Pollard because he is with the team and I don\u2019t tell him anything, so I guess it will be the same with Evin Lewis because naturally, he is the striker of the ball, so you should not complicate things with him and allow him the way he wants to play, sometimes it will come off , sometimes it won\u2019t, the day it comes off, he will win you games on his own, for such kind of players you don\u2019t talk much you have to let them be themselves, most of the times,\u201d Rohit added.<\/p>\n
Rohit struck form on Tuesday with a fine 94, which powered Mumbai to a strong total. When asked about if the defending champions had any specific plan to attack RCB bowlers he said, \u201cNot really, when you are batting you have to put pressure on the bowlers \u2014 whether it is spinners or fast bowlers you should, the time you allow them to bowl the day they want to bowl, that is when you will put yourself under pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never had any discussion about which bowler to target, like I said we had left-right combination going all the way through, when off spinners are bowling, right-handers are most likely to take that chances and when leg spinners are bowling left-handers will take most of the chances, that happens everywhere with all the team, that is the planning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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