Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Indian captain Rohit Sharma backs Rishabh Pant, Shubamn Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal

Melbourne: India skipper Rohit Sharma is standing behind his young batters - Rishabh Pant, Shubamn Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal - to perform well in the last two Tests of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy series.

Ahead of the fourth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground starting on Thursday, Rohit defended the young trio to overcome their early struggles in the series and contribute some valuable runs to the scoreboard as the five-match series is tied at 1-1.

Barring opener Jaiswal, wicketkeeper-batter Pant and right-handed Gill are yet to score a half-century in the ongoing series. Jaiswal struck a composed 161 in the second innings of the opening Test in Perth, which India won by 295 runs. However, he only added 32 runs in the following four innings.

On the other hand, Pant has only accumulated 96 runs across three Tests, while Gill, who missed the first Test due to a thumb injury, compiled only 60 runs in four innings.

“See, as I told you, all these youngsters - Rishabh, Gill, Jaiswal - all these youngsters are in the same boat. We don’t want to complicate what they are doing. They know what they are expected to do,” Rohit said on Tuesday.

“Our job here is to keep talking to them about small, small things like match awareness. I don’t think we need to tell them more and complicate stuff. Rishabh Pant knows what he has to do. He himself has a lot of expectations from him. He is working hard. I hope he clicks in the last two matches,” he added. (IANS)

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