Rohit Sharma pinpoints the reason behind leaving Shubman Gill out of the playing XI at the Melbourne Test

India skipper Rohit Sharma opened up on batter Shubman Gill failing to make it into the playing eleven at the Melbourne Test and said that they wanted to have that extra bit of cushion in the bowling for which the 25yearold left behindAustralia clinched a 184run victory over India at the Melbourne Test with the win the host took a 21 lead in the series While Indias chances of qualifying for the World Test Championship WTC Final at Lords fade awayIn a surprising change to Indias lineup for the Boxing Day Test at the iconic MCG Shubman Gill was dropped and Rohit Sharma made a return to the top of the batting orderIn the ongoing BorderGavaskar Trophy Shubman Gill has played two matches and three innings where he scored 60 runs at an average of 20 and has a strike rate of 7142Speaking at the postmatch press conference Rohit said that Shubman Gill was not dropped from the playing eleven He added that the team went with an extra allrounder for which Gill was left behindI had a chat with him There is no way when you are leaving someone out for whatever reason it is you will not have a chat And the chat with him was clearly he was not dropped We just wanted to have that extra bit of cushion in the bowling And hence we opted for an allrounder which shouldnt weaken our batting lineup Compromising a batter for a bowler was not something that I wanted to do We wanted to bat as deep as possible and along with that to have a bowling attack which can take 20 wickets Rohit said at the press conferenceThe skipper added that there was never a doubt that Gill was not batting well or he was not scoring runsWe considered everything and we ended up compromising him unfortunately But again look with him there was never a doubt that he was not batting well or he was not scoring runs or anything like that It was just to get that combination where we can cover both bases batting and bowling we opted for that option he addedThe India captain further added that sometimes one has to make sure whatever suits the conditionsOf course everyone has to understand that because eventually we dont make personal decisions It is in the best interest of the team We want to put the team ahead and think about what is the right combo for this particular venue and this opposition So thats how I planned to pick up the team Sometimes yeah you can see theres been a lot of changes in the team But sometimes you got to make sure that whatever suits the conditions suits your team and where you can cover all sides of the facets of the game you make that decision and thats what we did he addedAustralia gave a target of 340 runs to India at the start of Day 05 of the Melbourne Test The visitors had the whole day in hand but couldnt make the best out of it The fiery spells from the Aussie bowling attack bundled out India at 155 in the 80th overPat Cummins was named the Player of the Match following a stupendous performance with both bat and ballThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever