Deepak Hooda has batted 13 instances in his 16 T20Is thus far. And the tall hitter has batted at six totally different positions thus far. Irrespective of his batting place, he has excelled most of the time.
Batting at No. 6 throughout India’s first T20I in opposition to Sri Lanka, Hooda’s unbeaten 41 off simply 23 balls turned out to be game-changing on the Wankhede Stadium. Not solely did it gape India out of a gap, it additionally gave Hooda his second participant of the match award in a brief but spectacular worldwide profession thus far.
The soft-spoken Hooda had no qualms in admitting adjusting to totally different batting positions, even in T20s, is difficult. “To be honest, it makes a lot of difference,” he stated after India’s two-run win. “But you have to play the role assigned to you by the team management. Whatever suits the team best, one should be ready to play that role.”
Hooda stated that regardless of his ever-altering batting place, he had role-clarity properly earlier than the beginning of the match.
“It was very clear that we had to build partnerships after we lost early wickets. You have to be ready for such situations when you’re batting in the lower order, at No. 6. There can be a collapse any time and it was not a collapse today as such, we were in a good position early on. But yes, that’s the role of a No. 6 or 7,” Hooda stated.
“That’s what the game demands: that you play according to the wicket and post a decent total. That’s what I was thinking while batting as a No. 6 that I had to do the finisher’s job.”