Rohit’s talent was wasted batting at No 6: Dhoni

Melbourne: Delighted with Rohit Sharma’s match-winning knock against Bangladesh in the cricket World Cup, India skipper Dhoni on Thursday said the Mumbai batsman has now become an asset at the opener’s slot after his “talent was being wasted” in the middle-order.
“If I have to go back four years, it won’t be a realistic comparison, the reason being he was not really opening for us at that point of time. We felt that he was a bit of waste of talent if he was batting at 6 for us because more often than not he was not getting enough chance to bat, as our top-order was quite fixed. We couldn’t really make him play or give him enough opportunities,” Dhoni said.
He was in a mood to talk extensively on Rohit as he spent a lot of time doing a detailed analysis. “If you see in the first 40 games, you may think he has not done enough. But out of those 40, there were quite a few times when he went in to bat in the last four or five overs, and it’s difficult”said Dhoni(PTI)