MYTH #3 : Rohit can counter swing in T20s Since IPL 2022, Rohit has 21 avg and 123.53 against balls that swing 2.5 degrees or more. Even the average batter has similar numbers - 23.6 avg and 111 SR, with similar dot% and control%.

This reflects in Rohit's struggles against left-arm pacers. That's not the only thing he's bad at. He's terrible against leg-spinners and left-arm spinners too. He's also terrible against......you get the idea.

India's T20I captain has NO positive matchups among ALL 6 styles of bowling over the last 3 IPL seasons. Let that sink in. The data says that you can bowl literally anyone to him, and he won't do well.

MYTH #4 : Rohit Sharma is a good player of spin Yes he is, in Tests, and to some extent ODIs. In T20s, he's downright horrible. One of his biggest weapons in the longer formats, the sweep, doesn't yield any returns.

Rohit has 13.5 avg while playing the sweep since IPL 2022, a shot he plays 14% of the time. His SR, control% and boundary% are all worse than the average batter's. The cut is the ONLY shot type against which Rohit has a 30+ avg (min 5 attempts). The misery doesn't end there.

Rohit's strike rotation vs spin is atrocious. He defends the ball 12% of the time and hasn't scored a single run off this shot since 2022. He has terrible SRs while playing cover-drives, on-drives and flicks too (all <125). And he isn't good at any of the main scoring shots.

There isn't much else to say about Rohit's spin game. He doesn't have good numbers on any metric, and having him at the crease outside the powerplay could turn out to be a real problem for India.

MYTH #5 : Rohit Sharma is good at picking the length against pace Admittedly, Rohit is good against full lengths and out-and-out short balls. But his numbers are terrible in the 6-10m range (good + hard).

To summarize, the numbers suggest that Rohit Sharma is a player who isn't good: -> In the powerplay -> Against swing -> Outside the powerplay -> Against all styles of pace -> Against all styles of spin -> Against most lengths

Among these weaknesses, some are exaggerated: -> Left-arm pace -> Wrist-spin (googlies in particular) -> Left-arm spin -> Strike rotation -> Shot variety -> Length conversion ability

If Rohit does have a good World Cup, it will go down in history as one of the greatest achievements - a player defying all odds and overcoming all his weaknesses to somehow perform for his country on the quintessential big stage. Until then, however, we can only wait and watch.

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