India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said he was able to relate to what Rohit Sharma spoke about the need for being responsible when it comes to informing the public about numbers and statistics, after the India captain expressed his unhappiness over the broadcasters’ discussion about a century drought.
Ashwin’s comments came after captain Rohit Sharma was annoyed after a question was asked about him ending a 3-year wait for a century in ODI cricket. Rohit was addressing the press after scoring his 30th ODI hundred in the 3rd and final match of a 3-match series against New Zealand in Indore when he called out the broadcasters.
Rohit had gone without 1,100 days without an ODI hundred. However, during the said period, Rohit had played only 16 matches and hit 5 fifties in the 50-over format of the game.
“Rohit Sharma raised a beautiful topic about broadcasters, saying that they should be responsible when it comes to putting out facts to the common people. I have spoken a lot about this perception, how it can formulate into an opinion,” R Ashwin said in his YouTube show.
“If we look back, for quite a long time, people were speaking about Virat Kohli, that it was 4 years for him without a hundred. But if you ask the concerned person, he would say ‘in those 4 years, 8 months were pandemic, then I took my break’. He would be able to tell you correctly.
“If you keep on telling that there was a 3 year-gap, 4-year gap to the fans… fans, who are keen, and selectors and others who are part of the system, they know what’s the truth. But if you look at a commoner’s perspective, if you force such information on them, they would think ‘yeah, he hasn’t scored runs. So many new ones are scoring. Remove him’.
“That’s why Rohit Sharma said the broadcasters should deal with such things more responsibly.
