In less than a day’s time, the Indian cricket team will go up against the might of Australia at the Kia Oval, with the massive World Test Championship final set to kickstart from June 7th. Talking on the final in a show called “An Afternoon with Test Cricket Legends”, Indian captain Rohit Sharma opened up on India’s approach heading into the summit clash and how do they prepare to battle Australia.

Talking about the England condition, Rohit said, “I think England is pretty challenging conditions for the batters. But as long as you're prepared to have a good grind you can have some success.”

He also shed some light about what should be the mentality of the batters, adding, “As a batter, you know, one thing I realised batting last year, I think a year before that, it was that you're never in. The weather keeps changing a lot, so you've got to keep concentrating for longer periods of time. And that is the challenge of this format.”

Also highlighting what should be the right time to take the bowlers head-on, Rohit said, “You will get that intuition when it is your time to take the bowlers on. And that is when you should be ready for it. And, more importantly, you need to be there."

Adding further on the batters, Rohit said, “I've watched a lot of batters opening the batting here in these conditions and you know a lot of the guys who've had success. I've seen them how they've gone about you know scoring those runs obviously I'm not gonna try and emulate them because they all have different styles and I have a different style, but it's nice to know the pattern of scoring runs here.”

He concluded by talking about the surface, adding, “We know that this is probably one of the best batting wickets as well you get value for your shots you know the square boundaries are quite quick. So it's just about, you know, giving yourself the best chance of having success, which is, you know, to concentrate for longer periods of time.”