Rohit Sharma (India Captain): "See, when you are playing Test cricket, it is not played over two or three days. We know the importance of playing over the course of five days. They played well. But we have got class on our squad. The message was to stay calm. Not drift from what we want as a team. I'm proud of my team because they sticked to the plans.
I mean specially for this game, he has got a good experience of playing in this format. He has scored a good amount of runs and we wanted that right and left hand batting. We all know Sarfaraz. He did what he does the best. We don't have any long term plan with the batting order. We go with whatever we feel on the day and go with the flow.
Honestly, a lot of turning points. Once we won the toss, that was a good toss to win because we know how important it is to put runs on the board. Also, to get that lead. The way we bowled after the onslaught from the English batters was brilliant. We didn't have our most experienced bowler but the others did a fine job. The job was half done. We knew we had to bat well and get a big lead. The youngsters did a fine job and Jadeja bowled brilliantly today.
I have spoken a lot about Yashasvi in Vizag as well. Even outside the dressing room, there have been a lot of talks about him. I won't talk about him. He is young and I'll hope that he keeps doing and delivering for the side."