Rohit Sharma hits back: Follow-up moment: ‘It can’t hurt to celebrate’ | Cricket News

After India avoided injury in the dramatic final hour of the fourth day of the drawn third Test against Australia BrisbaneThe moment sparked celebrations in the Indian dressing room, which the Australian team and media found somewhat surprising considering India were still almost 200 runs behind the hosts. But Rohit believed it was a “small victory” that could have an impact on the final result of the series and there was “no harm in celebrating it”.
After India lost their ninth wicket at 213, No. 11 Akash Deep came out to join Jasprit Bumrah. Together, they built an unbeaten stand of 39 runs before play ended on Tuesday, helping India surpass 246 – the subsequent mark.
The broadcast cameras captured moments from the Indian dressing room and showed an elated Virat Kohli, captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Gautam Gambhir celebrating and laughing together.

After that, when Akash hit Pat Cummins for a six, a lively Kohli moved closer to the glass window of the dressing room to see how far the shot went.
The following day, the duo added eight runs before Travis Head’s off-spin dismissed Akash for 31, ending India’s innings at 260 and leaving them 185 runs behind against Australia.
The celebrations also provoked reactions from the Australian team, with veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon saying he and his teammates were a bit “surprised”.

“After the game we talked about it and were surprised by some of their actions,” Lyon said on the live broadcast during a rain delay on Wednesday. “It looked to me like their top order didn’t want to beat last night (Tuesday) if we could get it done and push through the follow-up.”
A journalist asked Rohit at the post-match press conference about his reaction to it and the Indian captain said, “It doesn’t matter (who said what). I’ve been here enough times to understand what mind games are.” From a personal perspective, we were behind; It was a small victory for us to avoid this deficit.”

“If you look at the weather and the way the game played, we managed a draw even though Australia were ahead and we were happy with that,” Rohit added.
The Gabba A draw means the five-Test series remains at 1-1 heading into the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.