Indian Skipper Rohit Sharma, recently in a press conference said that India will face the opponents just like other teams in the world.
India will play their 1st match of Asia Cup tomorrow against Pakistan. The most anticipated match that everyone wants to witness. Their in-game rivalry is world famous.
Rohit Sharma in the press conference about the India-Pakistan rivalry,
“There are six very competitive teams in the Asia Cup and on a given day anyone can beat anyone. Rivalry is there for people to talk about. As a team, what we see is we have an opposition to play tomorrow and see what we want to do. What is going to help us is to keep doing the right things on the field.”
Related to Pakistan dominance in recent times he added,
“Pakistan have played really well in recent times in both T20s and ODIs. They worked really hard to be No.1 and it will be a good challenge for us tomorrow.”
Facing the Pakistani pacers he said,
“Look in the nets, we don’t have Shaheen, Naseem and Rauf. We practice with who we have. They are all quality bowlers. We just have to use our experience to play them tomorrow.”
About the toss he said,
“We try to keep our goals small and see what is in front of us. We have Pakistan to face tomorrow and we will focus on that first and then look ahead. We have given time to many players and they have another opportunity in a tournament where six teams play. The issues we want to address. Now we want to focus on doing well in these games.”
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Pakistan already won the inaugural match against Nepal and it will be their last match into group A.