‘Aggressive brand of cricket…’: Rahul Dravid credits Rohit Sharma for hike in India’s T20 batting

Edited By : Krishnakant Kukreti | Oct 30, 2025, 05:16 PM IST

Published On Oct 30, 2025, 05:16 PM IST

Last UpdatedOct 30, 2025, 05:16 PM IST

Former Indian head coach Rahul Dravid has credited Rohit Sharma for having a strong influence in guiding the team to a revolution in the batting approach.

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Rohit Sharma changed his batting approach later on into his career, and switched to an extra-aggressive to provide Indian team an early pace. This approach produced great results as the Men in Blue went on to win their second ICC World T20 title – while being unbeaten throughout the tournament.

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Rahul Dravid was the head coach at the time of the title victory, and said that he had discussions with the former captain on the way forward – and that the result was the positive approach that has become common with India’s batting in the shortest format of the game.

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“I can’t speak for what happened before me and it’s not for me to say that but certainly from the time I came in a lot of the discussion with Rohit was around that we wanted to play a more aggressive brand of cricket,” Dravid said on Breakfast with Champions.

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“We (Rohit and I) started right from the beginning, because we could see that that’s the way the game was evolving. And Rohit’s got to take a large credit for that, to move the team in a particular direction. Play the game in a lot more aggressive and a lot more positive manner,” he added.