Both Indian openers showed grit and talent against a home attack that, Jimmy Anderson aside, looked largely disorientated
Rohit Sharma arrived in Australia a week before Christmas and immediately went into 14 days of hard quarantine. Marooned in his Sydney apartment while his teammates were playing in Melbourne, once he had completed his daily regimen of exercise there was little to be done except to watch television and think. So that was what he did. As his teammates battled hard against the Australian pace attack of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc, Sharma watched intently, hour upon hour, working out their methods, working out his own.
The Sharma who finally emerged from quarantine was a smarter, more circumspect, more thorough batsman than the one who entered it.
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