Flexible Rohit Sharma backs shot-making ability

Rohit Sharma's batting position is a heated topic of discussion in Indian cricket, with the common choices being No. 3, No. 5 and outside the XI. He has been persisted with through the Test series in Sri Lanka, and has ended the series scoring more runs - 202 - than any other Indian batsman barring his captain Virat Kohli. Rohit's 50 on Monday came alongside two fifty-plus partnerships, with Kohli for the fourth wicket and Stuart Binny for the fifth, after India had been left wobbling at 7 for 3 at the start of their second innings.

Rohit said he was ready to bat wherever the team management wanted him to: "See it's really what captain and management wants from this order. My preference is to bat wherever team asks me to. If you ask anyone, they are not going to say this is my number. Nowhere it is written in the world that No.4 belongs to this person, No. 3 belongs to this person. If you understand well and good."