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Cricketers can't complain of burnouts, says Rohit Sharma Flamboyant batsman feels that as cricketers have short shelf life

Press Trust of India | Chennai Last Updated at September 14, 2017 20:34 IST

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Cricketer Rohit Sharma at a promotional event for after the inauguration of a store in Chennai.

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ALSO READ Flamboyant India batsman Rohit Sharma feels cricketers have a short shelf life and they shouldn't complain about burnouts. IPL: Rohit Sharma stars as Mumbai beat Bangalore by 5 Stating that he doesn't believe in taking a break citing tight

IPL 2017: Rohit Sharma ned schedule as excuse, Rohit said: "Cricketers have limited careers, we 50% of match fee for showing cannot play till the (age of) 60, 70. We have to make the most of the dissent time we have. Rohit, Rana anchor to 6- win over Lions "There can't be excuses of burnout, tight match schedule."

Deepti-Poonam share record ODI stand to give India huge Asked whether he would like to take a break at some point given win the tight schedules, the Mumbai batsman, who holds the record India's Champions Trophy for the highest ODI score (of 264) said: "Not really. I am coming squad: Rohit returns; Pant, back from an injury. I don't see myself doing that, I want to play as Raina on standby much as possible. Whenever I get the opportunity I want to be there on the eld." Ad

Prepare for the future of He also said cricketers these days are used to tight schedules. nance with this Fintech programme from Oxford University of Oxford "We are all used to tight schedules. It is not happening now, it has Learn to create nancial been happening for a while now. We all understand how to take innovation to shape the marketplaces of tomorrow care of our bodies and there are specialists (physios/trainers) to help us out," said Rohit, who is here for the rst ODI of the India- Australia series to be held on September 17.

"Because of the schedules, you see a lot of rotation happening. Whenever we play a series we have to make sure that the guys are 100 per cent t and the trainers take care of that."

Asked about India's plan to contain Australia , Rohit said: "We have to make sure he doesn't score too many runs."

Rohit, who is coming o a good ODI tour of Sri Lanka where he scored 302 runs including two centuries and a 50, said he hoped to continue the good form against the visiting Australians.

"I will be happy if I can come up with the same performances as last time. Things have changed, team dynamics have changed. The venues will be dierent. I have to start afresh and not think about what happened in the past. I will be happy to get the same performances out again," he said.

Rohit had scored 491 runs in the last home series against Australia in 2013 which India won 3-2 with two games being abandoned due to weather conditions.

Asked to compare , who was rested for the limited-overs leg of the Lanka tour and from the rst three ODIs against Australia and , Rohit said both are dierent.

"I would have to see a lot more of him (Axar) before I can comment. He has done well so far. Yazuvendra Chahal and are good too and leg-spinners are always helpful in getting us breakthroughs," he said. ( Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard sta; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

First Published: Thu, September 14 2017. 19:57 IST

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