Work on my instincts but inputs from other players are welcome: Rohit Sharma on captaincy

Rohit Sharma had a terrific start to his captaincy career after taking up the full time role as the team unleashed thorough dominance at home in the recent fixtures. Sharma led India for the first time in Tests and his side completed a 2-0 whitewash win against Sri Lanka. 

Talking about his captaincy, the right-handed batter insisted that he works on his own instincts but inputs from other senior lads in the side are always welcome. 

"There are a few senior members in the team who understand the game well and had their inputs as well. I have my reading of the game as well. But eventually you work on instinct and my captaincy philosophy is to take a call on that point which seems right to you, keeping in mind of where the game is going. I try to analyse these things on the ground," he said in the post-match conference. 

Rohit lavished praise on fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah and lauded the way the right-arm pacer performed against Sri Lanka. 

"To come out and bowl like that in these kind of conditions shows how much skill and ability he has. Someone like Bumrah, he's never out of the game whatever the conditions are," he said. 

"To bowl on certain pitches, you need certain skill-sets. And he seems to bringing those skill-sets into the game depending on what sort of assistance he has from the pitch.”

"In Mohali we saw a different sort of pitch and he was still effective. This was a different kind of pitch. it was turning and bouncing and everything was happening for spinners,” he added. 

India wrapped up the second encounter against Sri Lanka within three days after bundling them out for 208 while chasing 447 in the second innings in Bengaluru to win the match by 238 runs.