New Delhi. The Indian cricket team has strengthened its claim in the race for the final of the ICC World Test Championship. Team India has started the 4-match Test series against Australia with an innings and a big win of 132 runs. Indian captain Rohit Sharma scored a brilliant century in the first innings and set a record of becoming the first Indian captain to score a century in all three formats. After the match, he told such a thing that everyone was surprised to hear.

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India piled Australia’s team for just 177 runs in the first innings of the Nagpur Test. Ravindra Jadeja took 5 while R Ashwin took 3 wickets. Apart from this, Mohammad Shami and Mohammad Siraj got 1-1 wickets. The captain played a brilliant inning of 120 runs for the Indian team that came out to bat. At the same time, Ravindra Jadeja and Akshar Patel scored excellent fifty. After scoring 400 runs, Team India was all out in the first innings and took a lead of 223 runs. R Ashwin wreaked havoc on Australia’s team in the second innings and took 5 wickets. Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami took 2-2 wickets. Akshar Patel got a breakthrough.

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Rohit Sharma Pitching Under the Captaincy

After the match, Captain Rohit Sharma revealed to Irfan Pathan and Deepdas Gupta that he gets crushed under captaincy. It is a difficult task to play and handle 3 spin bowlers on Indian pitches where spinners get help. Rohit Sharma revealed the tussle that happened during the match.

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Rohit Sharma said, “It is very difficult to handle three spinners. More help was coming from one end. All the three spinners reached the same end. Handling players in the dressing room is more comfortable than handling spinners on the field. Jadeja came to me and said that I have taken 249 wickets, if I want 250 wickets then give me bowling. R Ashwin said look, I have 4 wickets in my innings, bowling is needed to complete 5 wickets. I have pitched many times in India for this type of thing.