'Rohit Sharma is just pure class and elegance': Australia quick Josh Hazlewood on Hitman being hard to bowl

Indian opener Rohit Sharma is known to give a tough time to bowlers especially if he is set on the field. The Hitman makes sure to stay glued on the pitch and Australia quick Josh Hazlewood gives fans the reason he thinks Rohit Sharma is so hard to bowl.

According to the Aussie, the reason is due to the many strengths the batsman possesses. Hazlewood, who’s bowled to Rohit Sharma plenty of times, lauded the cricketer's likeness towards the short ball.

“He’s got many. I think it’s just with how the ease that he plays, especially anything back of a length, anything short, just puts it away with such ease. It’s just an area in which he gets better, I think. He never looks to bludgeon the ball, just pure class, and elegance. His records, especially in white-ball cricket, is phenomenal,” Hazlewood said on the Cricket Connected Show on Star Sports.

When it comes to Rohit's records, he has scored 2208 runs against Australia from 40 ODIs at an average of 61.33 with eight centuries and eight fifties. 

Rohit is the only cricketer to score three ODI doubles, Rohit’s first was against Australia in 2013 when he hit 209. In T20Is, although Rohit has scored 318 runs against Australia from 19 games. He even has three half-centuries. 

Hazlewood admitted seeing Rohit tends to annoy him and maybe even his fellow Australian pacers.

“Yeah, absolutely. I mean the batters through our time, obviously are the frustrating ones to bowl to,” the Australia fast bowler said. 

“Even when someone who came quicker like Mitchell Starc or Pat Cummins’ bowling to those guys, it doesn’t seem fast and that’s probably the one thing that sticks out when you are bowling to these types of players.”